Economic Daily: Strictly prevent virtual assets from becoming a money laundering tool

The Economic Daily article pointed out that at present, new technologies and new business formats such as virtual assets are constantly updated and iterated, showing a state of superposition with traditional upstream crimes such as telecommunications network fraud, online gambling, and underground banks. In order to cover up and conceal money laundering, criminals are constantly reinventing means to hide money laundering activities in online transactions. Among them, virtual coins, game coins, "scoring platforms", and live broadcast rewards have become new types of money laundering carriers and methods, which have the characteristics of networking and chaining, and are highly concealed and confusing. After the legal network is strict, it must be strictly enforced. To punish money laundering crimes in accordance with the law, all parties need to strengthen cooperation and cooperation to form a joint crackdown. Public security, law and financial supervision departments should strengthen coordination and cooperation, and continuously improve the law enforcement and judicial cooperation mechanism. The general public should be vigilant, recognize the nature of new money laundering crimes, and avoid falling into the trap of money laundering due to petty profits.