The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is launching a pilot program to combat cryptocurrency-related cybercrime worldwide.
According to the IRS, the federal agency is sending four attachés with extensive cybercrime investigative experience to four continents — Asia, Europe, South America and Australia — to work with their law enforcement counterparts.
Says Jim Lee, Chief of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI),
“To effectively combat cybercrime, we need to ensure that our foreign counterparts have access to the same tools and expertise that we have here in the United States. This summer, four of our most skilled special agents will be deployed to strategic locations on four continents to ensure we can continue to build relationships and effectively fight cybercrime on a global scale.”
The four individuals are dispatched to Sydney, Australia; Bogotá Colombia; Frankfurt, Germany; and Singapore, according to the IRS. They will remain there for a period of 120 days, starting in June and ending in September 2023.
They are tasked with fighting cybercrime with a focus “on tax and financial crimes that leverage cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, peer-to-peer payments and mixing services.”
The attachés include Peter Dickerman, a senior analyst for the IRS’s Digital Forensics Program; David Strager, who has experience overseeing criminal investigations into cryptocurrency tax evasion; Cuong Ly, whose expertise is crypto exchange fraud; and Stacey Perez, who has focused on investigating suspected money laundering crimes.
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