Officer, I just bought some coins, how did I become an 'involved person'?
Ms. Lin from Shanghai sat in the police station staring at the account freeze notification in her hands, her mind blank.
The day before, she had spent 50,000 buying cryptocurrency on the C2C section of the exchange and transferred the money to the seller's WeChat according to the platform's process. But the next morning, trouble arrived — her WeChat balance was frozen, her salary card couldn't withdraw any funds, and she couldn't even pay for her parents' medical expenses.
What made her even more frustrated was that the account freeze was enforced not by the local police in Shanghai, but by the police in Shandong, thousands of miles away.
Ultimately: you may not have been involved in any illegal activities, yet you could still be unjustly implicated.