The UK National Crime Agency has always sought a more qualified workforce to add to its cryptocurrency team. As a result, last month, on July 26, it announced that the agency intends to hire financial investigations managers.
The work of the investigators is to oversee the cryptocurrency and digital assets crime investigations from the viewpoint of POCA (Proceeds of Crime Act).
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Moreover, their work includes seizing and redirecting crime funds for the benefit of the crypto community.
Quick Takes
- Due to the increased funds lost to cryptocurrency fraud in the United Kingdom last year, the NCA has launched its digital assets team showing a heightened focus on cryptocurrency assets.
- The position concerns investigations of high-end money laundering, cryptocurrency fraud, and other blockchain-related crimes executed by organized crime groups.
- The position involves collaborating and working with other investigators, intelligence and analysis group members to create complicated cases through data and evidence from different sources. Moreover, the new investigator team will also collaborate with the London polices and a surveillance team.
- This position needs an active or current PIP2 (Professionalising Investigation Programme Level 2) certification of any equivalent accreditation on investigative crime that a government agency issues.
- The job comes with civil service incentives and a salary of £34,672 to £38,314 or $44,145 to $48,782.92.
What’s Happening In Crypto Today?
As of this writing, the price of Bitcoin is at $29,027.54, with a drop in market cap by 0.01% and an increase in trading volume by 27.01%.
On the side of Ethereum, it is presently trading at $1,831.39 with an increase in market cap by 0.15% and an increase in trading volume by 24.41%.
- Meanwhile, the price of USD Coin is at $0.9997, with a drop in market cap by 0.05% and an increase in trading volume by 12.16%.
- Dogecoin on its own is at the moment trading at $0.07453 with a drop in market volume by 1.06% and a drop also in trading volume by 15.02%
- Cardano is right now trading at $0.2922 with a decline in market cap by 0.67% and an increase in trading volume by 1.35%
- Solana, on its own, is trading at $23.01 with a drop in market cap by 0.16% and a drop in trading volume by 0.50%.