Michael Halepas
@MikeHalepas
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Barrister ⚖️ | Crime and Crypto Expert | Consultant to both the Government of the BVI and the Council of Europe, ECCD | Views expressed are my own | #Bitcoin
London, UK
Joined September 2012
📈Today, 22 December 2025, 215 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting. That's 42% of them. #courtstats #CS22122025
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Many thanks to Ilina M. Garevska and Maja Kostova in the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, to our interpreters for their excellent support, to Richard Strike for the co‑delivery, and to all participants for their active engagement and thoughtful questions. #DigitalAssets
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Over two concentrated days, we worked with representatives of financial intelligence, police and prosecution authorities in North Macedonia on blockchain tracing tools, evidential use of blockchain data, and practical case studies on virtual asset–related investigations.
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Earlier this week in Skopje, we concluded a @coe training on investigating and prosecuting money laundering and terrorist financing linked to virtual assets, under the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye. 🇲🇰
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It’s been an excellent opportunity to help the national law enforcement effort against bad actors misusing digital assets. Looking forward to the sessions this week! 🇲🇰 #FinancialCrime #LawEnforcement #BlockchainInvestigations #AML #VirtualAssets #FATF #Bitcoin #BlockAML
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We’re focusing on international and national regulatory frameworks for virtual assets, including FATF, MiCA, and the EU Travel Rule, as well as local legislation.
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Travelling to Skopje today to conclude a @coe crypto law enforcement training programme with Richard Strike on Monday and Tuesday. Over the past few weeks, we’ve developed and delivered a series of workshops for law enforcement agencies in the Republic of North Macedonia.
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INSANE: This is what a 5nm Bitcoin ASIC looks like up close. Millions of these are out there right now turning electricity into incorruptible money.
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It also implemented the core Law Commission recommendation that certain digital assets (notably crypto‑tokens and NFTs) should be capable of recognition as property via this new category, while leaving its boundaries to be developed by the courts, case by case.
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In doing so, it removed the residual uncertainty left by case law alone and confirmed that digital assets can attract the full suite of proprietary remedies – including in fraud/theft, insolvency, security and trust contexts...
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It gave explicit statutory footing to a “third category” of personal property, so that a digital or electronic thing is not denied proprietary status merely because it is neither a thing in possession nor a thing in action, across England and Wales (and Northern Ireland)...
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We mustn’t overlook what a quietly significant moment it was when the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 came into force on 2 December 2025... https://t.co/LA5Q6aFFJe
#DigitalAssets #PropertyLaw #CommonLaw #NFTs #FinancialCrime #AssetRecovery #Insolvency #LegalReform
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Op Destabilise by @NCA_UK is proof that parallel financial investigations, intelligence‑sharing and FIU‑law enforcement collaboration can expose major cross‑border laundering networks. #MoneyLaundering #LawEnforcement #InternationalCooperation
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The latest phase of the National Crime Agency (NCA)’s Operation Destabilise shows how a billion‑dollar laundering network active in the UK and Ireland acquired a controlling stake in Kyrgyzstan’s...
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NEW: CEO of $4.5 trillion dollar NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, says that “bitcoin is taking excess energy and storing it as a new currency. You can take it wherever you’d like, transporting it everywhere.”
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🚨 JUST IN: Two Bitcoin Casascius coins just moved after being dormant for more than 13 years Casascius coins are physical coins loaded with Bitcoin and secured by a hidden private key Each one holds 1,000 Bitcoin worth $89 MILLION h/t @SaniExp
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Russian crypto couple forced to watch each other’s torture before being buried in concrete in UAE desert
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Roman Novak, 38, and his partner Anna, 37, were forced to watch each other be tortured to death after their kidnappers failed in their extortion plans
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