In brief
- Sweden’s Minister of Justice has called on the country’s authorities to increase efforts to seize criminal profits, including cryptocurrency.
- Forfeiture legislation introduced last year enables enforcement agencies to seize property “regardless of whether or not it can be proven that someone has committed an actual offence.”
- Advocates of a national Bitcoin reserve support the call for a ramping up of seizure activities.
Sweden’s Minister of Justice has called on the police, Tax Agency and Enforcement Authority to increase its efforts to seize criminal profits, including in the form of cryptocurrency.
Gunnar Strömmer, of the Moderate Party, called on the authorities to take greater advantage of forfeiture legislation…