500 Estonian Crypto Companies Lose Permits After $220B Scandal

Cointelegraph

Published Jun 11, 2020 07:55PM ET

Updated Jun 11, 2020 09:40PM ET

Estonia, one of the European Union’s most crypto-friendly countries, is cracking down on hundreds of licensed crypto companies in response to a $220 billion money laundering scandal, according to Bloomberg.

Estonia was among the first EU countries to license crypto companies but has been forced to clamp down after hundreds of billions of dollars of dirty money was detected in the Estonian unit of Denmark’s largest lender Danske Bank A/S. It’s put the country at the center of Europe’s biggest money laundering scandal...

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