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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.

Oct 2, 2026

16:48
What kind of crypto scams or crypto related crimes are you detecting in general?
16:57
What we see in recent reports is that criminals are using crypto actually to launder money.
17:07
So they have dirty euros, they convert them into crypto and then they try to cash those cryptos out to euros again.
17:18
So they are using actually the crypto chain just to launder money.
17:24
Which, by the way, is pretty complex to detect.
17:30
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.
17:55
We receive a number of reports on such money laundering problems.

6 MINS LATER

24:17
Do you have all the tools and resources that you need to combat crypto crimes?

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