This article is from cointelegraph.com.br and the original article can be read here in Portuguese
In an unprecedented initiative in Brazil, the Public Ministry of the Federal District and Territories (MPDFT) announced, this Monday, 06, the creation of a special unit dedicated to the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency sector.
The official ceremony will be held next Tuesday (7) and will feature the signing of an ordinance by the Attorney General of Justice of the Federal District, Fabiana Costa. The unit will be called “Crypto” and will have different functions, from education to assisting in judicial investigations.
“Develop training and manuals for members of the Public Ministry, the Judiciary and the Police; promote informative actions that guide the population of the DF and the rest of the country on the safe use of crypto-assets; and provide support to MPDFT prosecutors in demands involving cryptoassets.”, highlights the document.
Therefore, according to the MPDFT, the unit will also provide support to other Public Prosecutors and Police in actions related to crypto assets, in addition to managing and operating tools for tracking and monitoring assets on the blockchains eventually acquired by MPDFT.
“According to a survey by the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), released last year, cryptocurrencies are used in 43% of financial scams. CVM research pointed out that the most common victims of these scams are men (91%), who are between 30 and 35 years old (36.5% of the total),” reported the MPDFT.
Crimes with cryptocurrencies
In September 2021, the MPDFT created a working group to investigate the technological evolution related to cryptoactives and their legal impacts, in addition to monitoring studies on the possible creation of electronic national currency and anticipating its consequences for the Institution and society.
The group is composed of prosecutors and prosecutors and specialists in the areas of Data Protection, Consumer Law, Information Technology, Institutional Security, among others.
In early May of this year, the MPDFT’s Special Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence Unit (Espec) provided support in Operation Merchants of the Temple, launched by the Minas Gerais Public Ministry (MPMG) in conjunction with the Minas Gerais Civil Police.
The action was intended to dismantle a criminal scheme developed in a complex pyramid composition to raise financial resources under the promise of exorbitant profits.
According to investigations, members of the criminal organization used faith as the main means of obtaining investors for the alleged financial services they offered. At the time, search and preventive arrest warrants were executed in the municipalities of Unaí, Belo Horizonte, Contagem and Guanhães, in addition to Belém (PA) and Brasília (DF).
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