{"id":574593,"date":"2026-03-26T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/brazil-passes-law-allowing-seized-crypto-to-be-used-for-public-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:53:33","slug":"brazil-passes-law-allowing-seized-crypto-to-be-used-for-public-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/brazil-passes-law-allowing-seized-crypto-to-be-used-for-public-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil passes law allowing seized crypto to be used for public security"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brazil<\/p>\n

Aimed at fighting organized crime groups, the new law allows confiscated assets including crypto to be used for \u201dpolice re-equipment, training, and special operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s public security agencies have a new weapon for fighting organized crime after national legislators approved a measure allowing them to use confiscated cryptocurrency in their efforts.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Brazil\u2019s legislative branch published<\/a> Law No. 15.358, establishing a legal framework for combating organized crime. The law allows authorities to prohibit transactions on crypto exchanges by treating digital assets as instruments in a crime, and confiscate crypto to be used to fund public security.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the purposes of forfeiture of assets, any asset that has been used to commit a crime shall be considered an instrument of the crime, even if it was not intended exclusively for that purpose,\u201d said a translation of the law, which included:<\/p>\n

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Aimed at fighting organized crime groups, the new law allows confiscated assets including crypto to be used for \u201dpolice re-equipment, training, and special operations.\u201d Brazil\u2019s public security agencies have a new weapon for fighting organized crime after national legislators approved a measure allowing them to use confiscated cryptocurrency in their efforts. On Wednesday, Brazil\u2019s legislative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-574593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}