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Crypto trading and all related financial services will now come under the PMLA (Prevention of money laundering act). This is as per a notification issued by the finance ministry. 

Crypto transactions brought under money laundering law 

Crypto trading and all related financial services will now come under the PMLA (Prevention of money laundering act). This is as per a notification issued by the finance ministry.&nbsp;

The government has imposed anti-money laundering provisions on cryptocurrencies or virtual assets as it looks to tighten oversight of digital assets.
In a gazette notification, the Finance Ministry said the anti-money laundering legislation has been applied to crypto trading, safekeeping and related financial services.
After this, Indian crypto exchanges will have to report suspicious activity to the Financial Intelligence Unit India
The move is in line with the global trend of requiring digital-asset platforms to follow anti-money laundering standards similar to those followed by other regulated entities like banks or stock brokers.
Digital currency and assets like NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have gained traction globally over the last couple of years. Trading in these assets has increased manifold with cryptocurrency exchanges being launched. However, India till last year, did not have a clear policy on either regulating or taxing such asset classes.
The notification said, "Exchange between virtual digital assets and fiat currencies, exchange between one or more forms of virtual digital assets, transfer of virtual digital assets, safekeeping or administration of virtual digital assets or instruments enabling control over virtual digital assets, and participation in and provision of financial services related to an issuer's offer and sale of a virtual digital asset" will be now be covered by Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002.
Virtual digital assets were defined as any code or number or token generated through cryptographic means with the promise or representation of having inherent value.
Last month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament that India was discussing with the G-20 member countries the need to develop a standard operating protocol for regulating crypto assets.
She had said crypto assets and Web3 are relatively new and evolving sectors and require significant international collaboration for any specific legislation on these sectors to be fully effective.
Crypto assets are by definition borderless and require international collaboration to prevent regulatory arbitrage. Therefore, any legislation for regulation or for banning can be effective only with significant international collaboration on the evaluation of the risks and benefits and evolution of common taxonomy and standards.
In the Budget for 2022-23, she had brought a 30 per cent tax on income from transactions in such assets. Also, to bring such assets under the tax net, she introduced a 1 per cent TDS (tax deducted at source) on transactions in such asset classes above a certain threshold. Gifts in crypto and digital assets were also taxed.

In Budget 2022, the govt took a conservative stand on taxation by announcing flat 30% on income from digital virtual assets or crypto

Crypto tax impact: Crypto trade in India takes big hit

Crypto exchange trade in India down by ₹32k cr since...

Crypto crisis in India 

In Budget 2022, the govt announced a 30% tax on income from digital virtual assets or crypto. Since then, cryptos worth 32,000 crore has been moved from Indian to foreign crypto exchanges.

It has been over a year since the Indian government announced a 30 per cent tax on the income from crypto assets and one per cent tax deduction, but the real repercussions are being seen now.
According to reports, cumulative trade volume worth Rs 32,000 crore has shifted from Indian crypto exchanges to foreign ones between February to October.&nbsp;
In February and March 2022, domestic centralised crypto exchanges lost 15 per cent of their total trading volumes. Between April and June, they lost another 14 per cent, and 81 per cent of all trading volume was lost between July and October.&nbsp;
Apart from India, the crypto market saw a massive sell-off in 2022. The total market cap has fallen from over $2 trillion at the end of 2021 to $819 billion. Several exchanges, including FTX, have filed for bankruptcy. The price of Bitcoin, the largest crypto token by market cap, has fallen over 70 per cent since its peak in November 2021.&nbsp;

There is a war of words on Twitter between crypto giant Binance and homegrown Wazirx which as left 15 million of the users confused and possibly in the lurch. What happened?Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, said on Friday it doesn’t own India-based platform. This came as a surprise to many including WazirX who had disclosed the same over 2 years ago. The TriggerBinance issued the statement hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it had frozen bank balances of Rs 64.67 crore belonging to WazirX.What is the Binance & WazirX connectionBinance CEO Zhao released a series of tweets clarifying that Binance doesn’t own any equity in Zanmai Labs and only provides wallet services to WazirX as a technology solution.Turning Back TimeBUT WAIT! Many netizens are then confused by the much publicised images from 2019 where Binance CEO and the top team at WazirX posed together while detailing in a bolg how platform users would be able to buy cryptocurrencies using Indian rupees. What's WazirX's Stand?Nischal Shetty, the co-founder of WazirX crypto exchange stood his ground as he battled with the Binance CEO on Twitter. Stating that Binance owns WazirX domain name and Binance has root access of AWS servers and all the Crypto assets and profits.
How are users impacted?Binance provides wallet services for WazirX as a tech solution and as Zhao tweeted has the ability to shut down wallet services. Binance chief sent a panic wave throught the users as  he said  WazirX should transfer their funds to Binance.The heart of the issue remains the ED watch on WazirX. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday conducted searches on one of the directors of Zanmai Lab Pvt Ltd, which operates WazirX, and issued a freeze order on its bank accounts. To distance themselves further Binance CEO informed its followers on Twitter “The WazirX founding team maintained control of the operations of the platform,” Zhao wrote. “We (Binance) were never given data or control of users, KYC, etc. We would love to work with ED to fix these issues in WazirX.”
 

Explained Binance vs Wazirx: The cryptic crypto ownership & the ED angle 

WazirX in war with Binance: Words to Wallets, what's at stake?

Zhao also tweeted that Binance could shut down WazirX if it wanted.

There is a war of words on Twitter between crypto giant Binance and homegrown Wazirx which as left 15 million of the users confused and possibly in the lurch.&nbsp; What happened? Binance, the world&rsquo;s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, said on Friday it doesn&rsquo;t own India-based platform WazirX. This came as a surprise to many including WazirX founders who had announced the acquistion&nbsp; 2 years ago.&nbsp; The Trigger Binance issued the statement hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it had frozen bank balances of Rs 64.67 crore belonging to WazirX. What is the Binance &amp; WazirX connection Binance CEO Zhao released a series of tweets clarifying that Binance doesn&rsquo;t own any equity in Zanmai Labs and only provides wallet services to <a href="https://www.editorji.com/business-news/cryptocurrency/explained-binance-vs-wazirx-the-cryptic-crypto-ownership-the-ed-angle-1659947402046">WazirX </a>as a technology solution. Turning Back Time BUT WAIT! Many netizens are then confused by the much publicised images from 2019 where <a href="https://www.editorji.com/business-news/cryptocurrency/binance-expose-is-the-world-s-largest-crypto-exchange-a-safe-house-for-laundering-1654589320408">Binance CEO</a> and the top team at WazirX posed together while detailing in a bolg how platform users would be able to buy cryptocurrencies using Indian rupees.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.editorji.com/business-news/cryptocurrency/crypto-collapse-another-firm-bites-the-dust-files-for-bankruptcy-1657766895890">Crypto collapse: Another firm bites the dust, files for bankruptcy</a> What's WazirX's Stand? Nischal Shetty, the co-founder of WazirX <a href="https://www.editorji.com/business-news/cryptocurrency/fm-explains-why-a-complete-crypto-ban-is-not-possible-1658134695654">crypto </a>exchange stood his ground as he battled with the Binance CEO on Twitter. Stating that Binance owns WazirX domain name and Binance has root access of AWS servers and all the Crypto assets and profits. 
How are users impacted? Binance provides wallet services for WazirX as a tech solution and as Zhao tweeted has the ability to shut down wallet services. Binance chief sent a panic wave throught the users as&nbsp; he said&nbsp; WazirX should transfer their funds to Binance.
<a href="https://www.editorji.com/story/crypto-concerns-ed-issues-show-cause-notice-to-wazirx-1623399711286">Crypto Concerns: ED issues show cause notice to WazirX</a> The heart of the issue remains the ED watch on WazirX. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday conducted searches on one of the directors of Zanmai Lab Pvt Ltd, which operates WazirX, and issued a freeze order on its bank accounts. To distance themselves further Binance CEO informed its followers on Twitter &ldquo;The WazirX founding team maintained control of the operations of the platform,&rdquo; Zhao wrote. &ldquo;We (Binance) were never given data or control of users, KYC, etc. We would love to work with ED to fix these issues in WazirX.&rdquo;
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Two Indian brothers residing in Seattle and their Indian-American friend residing Houston have been charged in the US in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading scheme in which they made illicit profits totalling approximately USD 1.5 million.

First-ever cryptocurrency insider trading case: Two Indians, their Indian-American friend charged in US 

Prosecutors said the three men made illegal trades in at least 25 different crypto assets and realised ill-gotten gains totalling approximately USD 1.5 million.

Two Indian brothers and their Indian-American friend have been charged in the US in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading scheme in which they made illicit profits totalling over a million dollars.
Ishan Wahi, 32, and his brother Nikhil Wahi, 26, are citizens of India and were residing in Seattle while Sameer Ramani, 33, resides in Houston.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams and Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Michael J Driscoll announced on Thursday the unsealing of an indictment.
The Wahi brothers and Ramani were charged with wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading in cryptocurrency assets by using confidential Coinbase information about which crypto assets were scheduled to be listed on Coinbase&rsquo;s exchanges.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission also announced insider trading charges against the three men.
The Wahi brothers were arrested on Thursday morning in Seattle and will be presented in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
The SEC complaint said Ramani is believed to currently be in India.
Ramani and Ishan Wahi attended the University of Texas at Austin at the same time and remain close friends.
Prosecutors said the three have been charged in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme, in which the defendants made illegal trades in at least 25 different crypto assets and realised ill-gotten gains totalling approximately USD 1.5 million.
The charges "are a further reminder that Web3 is not a law-free zone. Just last month, I announced the first-ever insider trading case involving NFTs, and today I announce the first-ever insider trading case involving cryptocurrency markets," Williams said.
"Our message with these charges is clear: fraud is a fraud, whether it occurs on the blockchain or on Wall Street. And the Southern District of New York will continue to be relentless in bringing fraudsters to justice, wherever we may find them,&rdquo; Williams added.
Ishan Wahi is charged with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
Similarly, Nikhil Wahi and Ramani are charged with one count of wire fraud conspiracy and one count of wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.

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