CONSIDERAȚII TEORETICE ȘI PRACTICE ÎN LEGĂTURĂ CU PREVENIREA ȘI COMBATEREA SPĂLĂRII BANILOR ÎN DOMENIUL CRIPTOACTIVELOR

At international level growing concerns appeared about the involvement of offenders in transactions with cryptoassets, the market being an unregulated one and providing a dose of anonymity to transactions. In this context, the specialised bodies have initiated a series of recommendations to help the states, but also cryptoasset service providers, to adopt the necessary measures in order to prevent and combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
The cryptoasset market is less known to the general public, but for the persons involved in illegal activities, concerned with concealing the source of incomes, it is an opportunity to benefit by those profits, without revealing their source.
The cryptoasset market involves rapid changes, new typologies and, implicitly, new risks, being necessary that all these processes be dealt with both by the government bodies and by the service providers. The international approach to cryptoassets differs, as there are states that have forbidden transactions with such assets, states that have adopted regulations, in compliance with the recommendations of international bodies, and also states that have not adopted measures in this field.
The study intends to analyze how these recommendations have been taken over and implemented at national level and what are the challenges which the government bodies and the players in the cryptoasset market must face.