"The IRS Is Sending Four Investigators Across the World to Fight Cybercrime"

Beginning this summer, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will send four cybercrime investigators to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany, marking a significant expansion of the IRS's global efforts to combat cybercrimes, such as those involving cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, and cryptocurrency laundering services. In recent years, agents from the IRS's Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit have played an important role in investigating crimes on the dark web as part of landmark international operations. These operations include the shutdown of the drug and hacking services marketplace AlphaBay and the arrest of its administrator, the bust of the Internet's largest child abuse website, and the takedown of a marketplace for stolen Social Security Numbers. Before now, the IRS had only one cyber investigator stationed abroad, in The Hague, Netherlands. Since 2021, this investigator has worked closely with Europol. During a panel at the Chainalysis Links conference on April 4, IRS executive director of global operations policy and support for IRS-CI, Guy Ficco, first announced the expansion. This article continues to discuss the expansion of the IRS's efforts to fight cybercrimes globally. 

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