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Max Braun
Director of Luxembourg's Financial Intelligence Unit (Cellule de Renseignement Financier, CRF), former cybercrime prosecutor and University of Luxembourg lecturer.
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Oct 2, 2026
“Red flags” - Episode 1: “The scam is you: how crypto fraudsters make victims do the work”
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16:48Aaron GrunwaldHOST
What kind of crypto scams or crypto related crimes are you detecting in general?
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16:57Max BraunGUEST
What we see in recent reports is that criminals are using crypto actually to launder money.
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17:07Max BraunGUEST
So they have dirty euros, they convert them into crypto and then they try to cash those cryptos out to euros again.
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17:30Max BraunGUEST
It's important that the VASPs and CASPs are asking the right questions, like the origin of the funds, how has this money really been earned, not just ticking some boxes on loan agreements or consultancy agreements and so on, but really understanding how this money has been made.
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24:17Aaron GrunwaldHOST
Do you have all the tools and resources that you need to combat crypto crimes?