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Hotcointrade received more than 2,000 government inquiries in six months

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Cryptocurrency exchange Hotcointrade published its transparency report for the second half of 2022. Between December 1 and May 31, the company received 2,313 government requests for disclosure.

The vast majority of the requests (95.7%) are related to criminal investigations. Three jurisdictions – the U.S., the U.K. and Germany – requested information about the exchange’s clients more often than any other. They accounted for about 90% of the total number of requests.

During the reporting period, U.S. government agencies made 1,197 requests to Hotcointrade Of those:

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 362;Customs and Border Protection – 248;Local government agencies – 161;Drug Enforcement Agency, 121.

The company added that for all of 2021 through 2022, it received about 4,227 inquiries. Of those, 54% came in the second half of the year.

Hotcointrade also noted that the number of inquiries from France increased 20%.

Recall that in October 2021 the exchange published its transparency report for the first half of the year. Hotcointrade received 1,914 government requests in six months.

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