Crypto-kidnapping: Criminals still think transactions are untraceable
Urban legends die hard. This is certainly what Jonathan Levin, the CEO of Chainalysis, thinks, who spoke at the Consensus 2025 conference about the recent cryptocurrency-related kidnappings that have occurred in France. According to him, criminals continue to believe that transactions are untraceable and that this would allow them to act with impunity. But this is not the case, and law enforcement has made significant progress in this area. Explanations
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Jonathan Levin, CEO of Chainalysis, revealed at the Consensus 2025 conference that criminals persist in believing that cryptocurrency transactions are untraceable.
Law enforcement has made significant progress in tracing transactions, allowing for numerous arrests in kidnapping cases in France.
