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As one of the latest and most innovative developments in business and finance, cryptocurrency could revolutionise the way individuals and corporates conduct transactions. It is arguably already doing so, to a degree. But nobody can afford to be blind to the risks that are currently involved in using it.

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As one of the latest and most innovative developments in business and finance, cryptocurrency could revolutionise the way individuals and corporates conduct transactions. It is arguably already doing so, to a degree. But nobody can afford to be blind to the risks that are currently involved in using it.

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Azizur Rahman

Azizur Rahman
28 May 2020

Senior Partner Aziz Rahman explains in the Financial Times the increased use of account freezing orders by HM Revenue and Customs

With the year 2019-20 having seen HM Revenue and Customs freeze 166 bank and building society accounts containing £19.5M in total, the Financial Times asked Rahman Ravelli’s Aziz Rahman to explain the...

Posted in: Cryptoassets and Cryptocurrencies. Freezing Orders.
Featured at: Financial Times
Syedur Rahman

Syedur Rahman
25 March 2020

Legal Director Syedur Rahman outlines what he believes are the reasons behind the $4 billion-a-year cryptocurrency crime problem

The figure that grabbed the headlines was that the total cost of crimes involving cryptocurrency hit $4.3 billion in 2019. That is a bigger total than ever before, dwarfing the $3 billion that was the...

Posted in: Cryptoassets and Cryptocurrencies.
Featured at: Cryptocurrency Magazine
Azizur Rahman

Azizur Rahman
6 January 2020

Senior Partner Aziz Rahman tells The Times the ending of the OneCoin investigation shows the UK is lagging behind the US

With the City of London Police having announced it has ended its investigation into pyramid fraud cryptocurrency OneCoin, The Times asked Rahman Ravelli’s Senior Partner Aziz Rahman what he thought of...

Posted in: Cryptoassets and Cryptocurrencies.
Featured at: The Times
Syedur Rahman

Syedur Rahman
17 December 2019

Legal Director Syed Rahman discusses with Risk UK why the NCA’s largest asset recovery emphasises the value of account freezing orders to investigators.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) was no doubt happy to announce it had reached an out-of-court settlement with billionaire property tycoon and philanthropist Malik Riaz Hussain that sees him handing ov...

Posted in: Cryptoassets and Cryptocurrencies. Freezing Orders.
Featured at: Risk UK
Syedur Rahman

Syedur Rahman
16 August 2019

Legal Director Syed Rahman comments on NCA being granted a £100m Asset Freezing Order

The NCA has been granted freezing orders on eight bank accounts containing a total of more than £100 million, which is suspected to have derived from bribery and corruption in an overseas nation.

Posted in: Cryptoassets and Cryptocurrencies. Freezing Orders.
Featured at: Thomson Reuters, Risk UK, economia, and Law360
Nicola Sharp

Nicola Sharp
28 March 2019

Account Freezing Orders: Why we can expect more of them. A Practical Guide

With recent weeks having seen the first use of account freezing orders, Rahman Ravelli’s Aziz Rahman wrote an article examining their importance to the authorities and why they may come to be used fre...

Posted in: Cryptoassets and Cryptocurrencies. Freezing Orders.
Featured at: Lexology