Argentina has designed and established identification and forensic protocols to guide security and police forces in standardizing their actions to fight crypto crime.
Argentina Designs Forensic Protocols to Fight Crypto Crime
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Argentina Establishes Forensic, Identification, and Seizing Protocols for Crypto Crimes
Argentina has taken another step toward empowering its public servants to fight crypto crime. The Nation’s Security Ministry recently issued Resolution 117/2025, which describes the procedures that public servants, including police and federal security forces, must follow when dealing with digital assets possibly linked to crime.
The protocol, which Argentine authorities must now follow, seeks to standardize the necessary processes to prevent the loss or alteration of digital assets in official procedures.
In the same way, the resolution recognizes and identifies that cryptocurrencies are tools that are being used in money laundering and terrorism financing schemes. Because of this, the Security Ministry has established the need to strengthen the research and tracking of these assets when they are involved in criminal activities.
With this move, Argentina jumps to the forefront of Latam regarding the treatment of crypto-related crime and recognizes the relevance of digital assets as money proxies.
And with a good reason: the country has been home to several high-profile crypto frauds affecting thousands, mostly related to investment fraud and Ponzi schemes.
The Security Ministry is aware of this crypto crime wave and has been preparing a suite of tools to combat it. In December, the ministry established that the security forces should prevent “unauthorized financial intermediation through the use of cryptoassets,” vowing to preemptively track possibly criminal behavior derived from their usage.
Read more: Argentina to Patrol Cyberspace in the Hunt for Crypto Criminals
Argentine authorities scored major wins in crypto crime cases last year. In September, one of the first crypto seizures was executed in a money laundering operation that mixed phone smuggling activities and illegal online casinos.
Read more: First Seizure of Stablecoins Recorded in Argentina as Authorities Disrupt Money Laundering Operation
Also, In December, Argentine law enforcement agencies requested the freezing of 3.5 million USDT linked to Rainbowex, an alleged Ponzi scheme. This marked the first time Argentine law authorities interacted directly with Tether in a criminal case, issuing an order for this objective.
Read more: Argentina Freezes $3.5 Million in USDT Linked to Rainbowex Amid Massive Seizure Operation
