Police in France Bust Illegal Bitcoin Exchange
Police in France have reportedly closed the curtains on a bitcoin exchange they say was being run in violation of the law, Reuters reports. (In response to comments below, the name of the exchange is not immediately clear.) In total, authorities have seized about 388 bitcoins from the operation, worth $240,000 at the time of this writing, in a move that comes as global scrutiny on bitcoin and digital currencies is at an all-time high. According to Reuters, two individuals from the cities of Nice and Cannes in the French Riviera were put under a formal investigation as of Friday, and have....
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In the first ever operation, French police have shut down an illegal Bitcoin exchange, and in the process seizing 328 “virtual currency units” worth around 200,00 Euros, or $272,800 at current exchange rates. According to Reuters, two people in the Riveria coastal cities of Cannes and Nice were placed under investigation Friday, under the suspicion they were running a website that illegally sold and lent Bitcoin to its users. In a raid that happened last week to one of the suspects residences, investigators seized a portfolio of Bitcoins, credit cards and computer hardware.