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nables investigators to identify, trace, seize and recover cryptoassets and investigate money laundering, fraud and other criminal activity involving digital assets.
Builds the knowledge needed to develop effective policy, legislation, regulation and national strategies addressing cryptocurrency risks and opportunities.
Ensures firms understand crypto-related AML/CFT risks, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions and suspicious activity reporting obligations.
Demonstrates practical implementation of FATF requirements, particularly Recommendation 15, including effective supervision, VASP regulation, risk assessment, investigation and enforcement.
Complyport Gentium UK’s basic cryptocurrency training provides delegates with a practical foundation in how cryptocurrency and virtual assets work, why they are used, and how they intersect with financial crime, regulation and investigations. It covers wallets, addresses, recovery seeds, blockchain technology, transactions, Block Explorers, cryptocurrency services, criminal use, legislation and regulation, and the seizure, storage and realisation of cryptoassets
The training is designed to demystify cryptocurrency for investigators, regulators, government departments and regulated-sector professionals, enabling participants to recognise crypto-related risks, understand potential evidence and know when specialist intervention is required. It can also provide a foundation for progressing to practical blockchain tracing and analysis using Chainalysis Reactor
How virtual currencies work, blockchain, cryptography, wallets, addresses and key terminology.
How criminals use crypto for money laundering, fraud and other criminal activity.
Investigation fundamentals, transaction analysis, services and cryptocurrency ATMs.
The legal and regulatory framework, powers of seizure and retention, and investigative considerations.
Planning for seizure, secure storage, risk controls, asset management and eventual realisation of cryptocurrency
Complyport Gentium UK expertise helps turn cryptocurrency intelligence into real-world asset recovery.
A major Ghana UK investigation demonstrates the value of combining specialist crypto investigation, international law enforcement cooperation and secure digital-asset management. Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), working with the UK National Crime Agency and specialist private-sector partners, traced and froze cryptocurrency linked to a major fraud investigation. More than $15 million was subsequently realised and transferred to EOCO, with the recovery intended to support restitution for victims.
Complyport Gentium’s contribution began well before the recovery. Complyport Gentium delivered capability-building and mentoring for Ghanaian authorities, helping develop cryptocurrency investigation and blockchain-tracing capabilities. The project demonstrates Gentium’s approach of building sustainable investigative capability rather than simply providing a one-off investigation service.
Funds transferred to EOCO; victim restitution is the next stage.
Build capability → Trace assets → Recover value
Tracing cryptocurrency is only the beginning.
The successful recovery of cryptoassets creates another critical challenge: how do law-enforcement agencies securely hold, manage, value and realise digital assets once they have been seized?
Complyport Gentium UK has developed specialist expertise across this part of the asset-recovery lifecycle, including working alongside regulated virtual-asset businesses and law-enforcement agencies. Complyport Gentium personnel have also been involved in the management of UK law-enforcement cryptocurrency recovery, storage and realisation arrangements.
This enables Complyport Gentium to help agencies move from “We have identified the cryptocurrency” to “We can safely preserve it, realise its value and return the proceeds through the appropriate legal process.”
Cryptocurrency may cross borders in seconds. Investigations cannot afford to move slowly.
Complyport Gentium UK supports law-enforcement and investigative agencies internationally with cryptocurrency investigations, blockchain analysis, financial intelligence, investigative strategy and specialist mentoring.
Our international work has included supporting authorities across Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, helping investigators understand cryptocurrency transactions, identify relevant wallets and services, develop evidence and progress investigations involving cross-border financial flows.
Complyport Gentium’s approach is centred on long-term capability building. Rather than simply delivering classroom training, Complyport Gentium works with agencies to develop investigative teams, procedures, workflows and practical expertise that can be applied to live cases.
This has included supporting the development of cryptocurrency task-force capability, mentoring investigators following training and helping authorities integrate blockchain intelligence into wider financial-crime investigations.
The perception that cryptocurrency is anonymous is increasingly outdated.
Modern blockchain analysis can enable investigators to follow transactions across wallets, exchanges and jurisdictions, identify clusters of addresses and connect blockchain activity with conventional investigative evidence.
Complyport Gentium combines financial investigation expertise with specialist cryptocurrency investigation techniques, helping investigators turn complex blockchain transactions into evidence that can be understood by investigators, prosecutors and courts.
The UK has increasingly recognised cryptocurrency as an important recoverable asset. The Government has introduced specific statutory powers and guidance concerning the recovery of cryptoassets under the Proceeds of Crime Act framework.
The real measure of a crypto investigation is what happens to the recovered asset.
Complyport Gentium’s work extends beyond identifying cryptocurrency. Its focus is on helping authorities understand the complete asset-recovery journey from investigation and tracing through seizure, secure custody, realisation and, where legally appropriate, the return of value to victims.
The Ghana case provides a powerful example: cryptocurrency identified during a fraud investigation was ultimately converted into fiat currency and transferred to EOCO, with victim restitution forming the next stage of the process.
Complyport Gentium UK Cryptocurrency Investigation, Asset Recovery & Regulation
Investigate. Trace. Seize. Secure. Realise. Recover.
Complyport Gentium UK brings together specialist expertise in:
Our objective is simple: turn cryptocurrency intelligence into recoverable assets and investigative results.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) takes a risk-based approach to regulating cryptoassets in the UK. Its regulatory framework focuses on protecting consumers, reducing financial crime and ensuring that firms undertaking regulated cryptoasset activities meet the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
As of September 2026, the UK is moving from the existing AML registration framework to a broader financial-services regime for cryptoassets.
Area | FCA position |
Current AML registration | In-scope cryptoasset exchange providers and custodian wallet providers must register with the FCA under the Money Laundering Regulations before starting business in the UK. |
New FSMA regime | The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 bring additional cryptoasset activities within the FCA’s regulatory remit. |
Authorisation applications | The new authorisation gateway opens on 30 September 2026. The new regime is expected to commence on 25 October 2027. |
Financial crime | Firms must have appropriate AML/CTF systems, risk assessments, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring and suspicious activity reporting arrangements. |
Financial promotions | Cryptoasset promotions to UK consumers are subject to the financial promotions regime, including requirements applying to overseas firms marketing into the UK. |
Organisations represented in our cryptocurrency training programmes.
Organisations represented in our cryptocurrency training programmes.
Assist cryptoasset businesses in assessing their regulatory obligations, preparing for FCA registration or authorisation, and developing the documentation and governance needed to meet regulatory expectations.
Develop and review AML policies, risk assessments, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions controls and suspicious activity reporting procedures for cryptoasset businesses.
Support VASPs with cybersecurity audits, governance, risk management, policies, controls and assessments of operational security relevant to their business model.
Provide training and mentoring for compliance teams, MLROs, senior management and investigators covering cryptocurrency risks, blockchain analysis, financial crime and regulatory obligations.
FATF’s approach is to bring virtual assets (including cryptocurrencies) within the global AML/CFT framework rather than treating them as outside the financial system. Through Recommendation 15 and its Interpretive Note, FATF requires jurisdictions to identify and assess the money-laundering, terrorist-financing and proliferation-financing risks associated with virtual assets and to apply a risk-based approach. Virtual assets are treated as property, proceeds, funds or other corresponding value for the purposes of the FATF Recommendations.
The key regulatory focus is on Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs)—such as exchanges, custodial wallet providers and other businesses undertaking covered virtual-asset activities. VASPs should be licensed or registered, subject to effective supervision, undertake customer due diligence, maintain records, identify and report suspicious transactions, and comply with the FATF Travel Rule for relevant transfers. FATF’s current approach also focuses increasingly on risks from stablecoins, unhosted wallets, peer-to-peer transactions, offshore/unregistered VASPs and DeFi. The July 2026 FATF update confirms that implementation remains uneven globally and that effective supervision and enforcement remain significant priorities.
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