Polish authorities have seized 1.27 billion Polish zlotys (about $371 million) from the bank accounts of two companies suspected of laundering money for a drug cartel in Colombia. Some local publications link these companies to the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange.
According to TVP Info, one of these companies was a contractor for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the construction of the embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and embezzled 400,000 euros belonging to the ministry; stolen money was found in its accounts. It was also reported that both companies are associated with a cryptocurrency exchange, the name of which was not disclosed.
The Polish information portal Spider’s Web, referring to “unofficial information”, directly pointed to the Bitfinex exchange, because it has accounts in the bank in which stolen money was discovered in the accounts of the scammers.
In addition, one of the clients of the Bitfinex exchange on Polish Bitcoin forum stated that he gave testimony to the Polish police because money was transferred to him from the exchange by Crypto sp. z o.o, which may be rumored to be associated with Colombian drug cartels, whose parent company is Crypto Capital Corp. is believed to be an offshore company of Bitfinex.
No formal charges were brought in the press, and reports indicated that prosecutors had contacted both Europol and Interpol due to the international nature of the case.
Bitfinex considers these allegations to be unsubstantiated and states that these rumors are being spread to influence the loyalty of its customers and the number of transactions
According to https://www.ccn.com
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