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Illicit foreign-exchange transactions in South Korea are increasingly dominated by cryptocurrency-linked deals, according to government data.
Four crypto-related cases this year involving 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) that violated local foreign-exchange transaction rules have been sent to the prosecutor’s office, according to a customs office report submitted to lawmaker Min Byoung Dug.
That’s nearly double the 827 billion won reported for the whole of last year and a more than 70-fold jump from 2020, according to the report. Nearly 75% of transactions violating foreign-exchange rules are crypto-linked, up from 61% last year, the data show.
The four cases reported by the customs office are unrelated to a separate, ongoing probe by South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service into $3.4 billion worth of “abnormal” foreign-exchange transactions at local banks for...
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