FILE Image: A bitcoin emblem is witnessed next to Turkish flag at a cryptocurrency exchange store in Istanbul, Turkey April 27, 2021. Image taken April 27, 2021. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
May well 3, 2021
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey additional cryptocurrency trading platforms to the list of companies included by anti-revenue laundering and terrorism funding regulation, it reported in a presidential decree published early on Saturday.
The Official Gazette stated the country’s hottest enlargement of principles governing cryptocurrency transactions would take fast result and include “crypto asset service providers”, which would be liable to the present rules.
Last month Turkey’s central lender banned the use of crypto belongings for payments on the grounds these transactions were risky. In the times that adopted two Turkey-primarily based cryptocurrency buying and selling platforms had been halted below separate investigations.
The probe into a single of them, Thodex, led to the jailing on Thursday of 6 suspects which includes the siblings of its chief executive, Faruk Fatih Ozer, who Turkish authorities are in search of after he travelled to Albania.
(Reporting by Jonathan Spicer and Can Sezer)