This article is from cointelegraph.com.br and the original article can be read here in Portuguese
Agents from the FBI, the US federal police, CIA, the US government intelligence center, and Homeland Security Investigations were in Brazil to teach a course with techniques for the prevention, investigation and fighting crimes involving cryptocurrencies to 80 professionals from Brazilian security forces, informed a bulletin released by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security on Monday, 23.
Entitled Conference on Investigation and Prospecting of Cyber ​​Crimes and Identification, Evaluation and Prevention of Acts of Violence, the training was held in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Porto Alegre (RS). Agents from the Federal Police, Civil Police, Federal Highway Police, Military Police and federal and state public ministries participated in the qualification.
During the meetings between security agents from both countries, professionals from the US government’s intelligence sector presented Brazilians with the various stages of the qualification process to combat thefts and shady deals with cryptocurrencies, including the collection of traces in other modalities of cyber crimes and techniques for interviewing and interrogating suspects.
Over the course of two weeks, US agents offered theoretical and practical resources to investigate, track, identify evidence and point out the authorship of crimes involving cryptocurrencies, using the tools that are available to Brazilian security forces, as explained by Leonardo Borges, chief delegate of the Criminal Organizations and Money Laundering Police Station of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro:
“We had practical dynamics, with real cases and learned from professionals experienced in large cybercrime investigations”.
The occurrences of online crimes, such as data hijacking, bank account invasion, cyber attacks against companies and government institutions, digital currency scams and money laundering have increased in Brazil and in the world. The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, highlighted the concern and investment of the Brazilian government to combat them:
“We invest heavily in technical improvement so that security agents are up to date on the most advanced forms of repression and fighting crime. The thieves are acting more and more on the internet and we want to continue in the hardening of this practice”.
As they are crimes involving new technologies, the improvement of combat and investigation techniques must be permanently updated, hence the importance of training, said the assistant secretary of Integrated Operations, Bráulio de Melo:
“Criminal transactions are already digital and to identify these traces we need to evolve to act in cyberspace and in the deepweb (the so-called deep internet). “With this technical and specific qualification, we make the best available to train our professionals”.
The Conference was made possible through a partnership between the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and the US Diplomatic Mission in BrasĂlia, with the support of the civil police of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul. Diogo Ferreira, head of the Police Station for Repression of Organized Criminal Actions, in Passo Fundo (RS), welcomed the cooperation initiative between the two countries:
“This exchange of information and cooperation system are always welcome. The techniques used and teachings brought by the North Americans were very useful, given that they are at the forefront of the most complex investigations”.
As Cointelegraph Brasil recently reported, the FBI created a team specialized in fighting crimes involving cryptocurrencies.
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