Security experts assess that terrorist groups are increasingly using digital technologies to conceal financial traces. By converting money into cryptocurrencies, funds can be transferred more easily to individuals or organisations linked to terrorism.

For this reason, investigations involving crypto assets are no longer treated only as financial crime cases, but also as issues that directly affect national security.

Reshat Maliqi, a lawyer who is the former director of the Kosovo Police, told BIRN that Islamic State activity has evolved into a kind of hybrid warfare. “It is very difficult to obtain information. These are covert forms of financing, recruitment, and training, and these methods are much more dangerous,” he said.

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