According to PANews on August 12, according to Diarionucleo, the Argentine Federal Police conducted 27 raids across the country, confirmed the identities of 24 people and confiscated encrypted assets (worth about $4,000), including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT etc. One of the investigations that led to this operation began in February this year, when cybercriminals managed to copy the phone number of the chief operating officer of a major company, gaining access to the company’s bank accounts worth 20 million pesos, which were later transformed through various transactions. for cryptocurrency. As this criminal engineering complicates the monitoring of bank account funds, it required the intervention of teams specialized in cryptocurrency activities from the Buenos Aires provincial public sector and the Argentine Federal Police.