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The broader challenge is that North Korea’s cryptocurrency laundering pipeline no longer operates solely within the digital asset ecosystem...The stolen proceeds can move through organized crime networks, human intermediaries and cash-based systems, requiring investigators to follow the money beyond the blockchain and into the traditional financial and criminal worlds."

We expect...that the supply chain for the components into that final product or platform will be thoroughly understood...We might not necessarily be able to avoid acquiring a component or a material from a country we are not very friendly with but we want to try and mitigate that risk."

The UAE increasingly had to demonstrate that it is willing to cooperate internationally on serious and organised crime and not simply be somewhere that wealthy fugitives can establish themselves indefinitely and...that a country isn't necessarily a permanent safe haven just because it has been one in the past."