The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the process of revamping the organization of its cybercrime bureaus and more than doubling the number of attorneys available to handle criminal crypto cases, an official said.
Nicole M. Argentieri, the deputy assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, gave a speech in Washington DC on Thursday outlining the reorganization.
Argentieri says the DOJ is merging the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) into one office.
explains the official,
“This merger means that the number of Criminal Division attorneys available to work on criminal cryptocurrency cases will more than double. Any CCIPS attorney can potentially be assigned to an NCET case. The potential for crossover and collaboration is huge. It has become clear to anyone in the cybercrime field that cryptocurrency work and cyber-prosecution are intertwined, and will be even more so in the future.”
Argentieri says the merger increases the importance of cryptocurrency work within the DOJ’s Criminal Division.
“Combined into CCIPS, NCET will multiply the entire department’s ability to track down cryptocurrency, prosecute cases involving criminal use of cryptocurrency, and seize legally forfeited cryptocurrency as a way to get that money back to victims — just as CCIPS has historically helped prosecutors across the department address electronic evidence, intellectual property, and computer crime issues. Every modern prosecutor should be able to track down and seize cryptocurrency. This merger recognizes that.”
The DOJ first established NCET in late 2021.
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