Corruption and crime in the economy remain worrying phenomena that undermine economic equality between citizens and the rule of law.
In the report recently published by SHISH, it is emphasized that laundering the proceeds of crime remains a feature of organized crime. Interactors are also foreign nationals involved in international organized crime.
Crimes in the most widespread economies are: tax evasion, through the application of various abusive practices and schemes; smuggling of excise goods, manifested through the manipulation of customs documentation, as well as foreign cash banknotes and precious metals above the allowed value; conducting gambling in informality; informal lending outside banking instruments, informal application of virtual cryptocurrencies and unlicensed brokerage.
The activity of unlicensed brokerage or exercised informally by economic operators, appears in intermediation and investments in stock exchanges abroad, in cryptocurrencies and precious metals, camouflaging the activity after the activities of the "call center" type.
Also, the actors involved in this form of illegality have created favorable circumstances for the production of cryptocurrency in informality.
SHISH report reveals that Bitcoin is produced in our country, by unlicensed entities for this activity. Facilities are rented, near places where the possibility of abuse or theft of electricity is higher, but there are also cases where interference with electricity meters.
The activity takes place informally even though the relevant legislation has entered into force (Law No. 66/20120 "On financial markets based on distributed registry technology") which includes regulating licensing conditions, exercising and supervising the activity of operators and stock exchanges. , trading of virtual currencies and prevention of abusive practices in the market, in our country. Using virtual money brings a number of possible benefits and facilities. This likely increases the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing or other criminal proceeds of crime.