{"id":11219,"date":"2021-09-20T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2021-10-10T17:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T15:31:34","slug":"how-a-bitcoin-purchase-turns-into-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/how-a-bitcoin-purchase-turns-into-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Bitcoin purchase turns into money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new version of the money laundering offence came into force on September 1<sup>st<\/sup>. Even if, according to the legislator, much is to remain the same, the amendment has the potential to tighten criminal liability in individual cases. The purchase of Bitcoins, which in the public discussion are always brought close to criminality anyway, could now be even more easily covered by the criminal offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/team\/bernd-wiesinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bernd Wiesinger<\/a> dealt with this very topic in a guest article in the daily newspaper Der Standard. The article can be read online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000129771324\/wie-ein-bitcoin-kauf-zu-geldwaesche-wird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any further questions on this topic, please do not hesitate to contact Bernd Wiesinger and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/expertise\/criminal-law-and-white-collar-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White Collar Criminal law team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest article in the daily newspaper Der Standard, Bernd Wiesinger deals with the new version of the money laundering offence and its impact on Bitcoin purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"class_list":["post-11219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}