The reports that crypto had been used to help finance Hamas are focusing new attention on a bill introduced by Warren and Marshall last year that would impose new anti-money laundering rules on the crypto world. “We're committed to imposing more sanctions alone and in coordination with our partners against Hamas financial network,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on a call with reporters. The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it had imposed sanctions on the operator of a Gaza Strip-based crypto exchange along with other senior Hamas individuals who help manage the group’s investment portfolio. The Treasury Department, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other national security and law enforcement experts have warned that digital assets are increasingly being used for money laundering, ransomware attacks, trafficking, and terrorist financing. The fear that crypto could be used to fund terrorist operations was already on the radar of many officials in Washington.
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