Britain’s judiciary has a crypto problem, and it’s not the kind you solve with a software update. A government-backed review has concluded that magistrates and judges across the UK lack the specialized training needed to handle an expected wave of crypto money laundering and AI-enabled fraud cases.

The gap between crime and courtroom

Elliptic’s 2025 Typologies Report has flagged the industrial scale of these operations. We’re talking about fraud networks that run with the organizational discipline of a mid-cap company, complete with layered laundering strategies designed to exploit jurisdictional gaps.

UK authorities seized approximately 61,000 Bitcoin, valued at around $7 billion, in connection with a fraud…