Venezuela extends reorganization shutdown of crypto agency to March 2024

Venezuela was 1 of the archetypal Latin American countries to found its ain crypto oversight body, the National Superintendency of Crypto Assets (Sunacrip). Now, the authorities says it volition instrumentality six other months to ‘reorganize” the entity, which de-facto stopped its enactment successful March 2023. 

According to the statesmanlike decree, published connected Sept 19, the caput of State, Nicolás Maduro, ordered the hold of the play of forced reorganization of Sunacrip for different semester. The play of the caller hold officially started connected Sept. 17 and volition past until March 24, 2024.

Sunacrip was closed successful March 2023, erstwhile the authorities announced its reorganization owed to the corruption ungraded involving its erstwhile apical management. At the clip astatine slightest 10 radical were arrested, including Joselit Ramirez Camacho, who led the crypto section from its inception successful 2018. According to Venezuelan prosecutors, Ramirez stole much than $3 cardinal from the authorities during his clip astatine Sunacrip. He was successful complaint of overseeing the crypto regularisation successful the country, arsenic good arsenic the implementation of Venezuelan nationalist cryptocurrency tied to lipid reserves, Petro.

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The shutdown of the regulatory assemblage led to chaos successful the Venezuelan crypto industry, firmly tied to the state, which has been utilizing integer assets to evade the U.S. fiscal sanctions — crypto mining facilities successful respective states were unopen down, and immoderate crypto exchanges were ordered to cease operations.

Sunacrip was established by the Venezuelan authorities successful 2018 to inspect the entirety of crypto-related commercialized activities successful the state and the “creation, emission, transfer, commercialization and exchange” of each crypto actives.

In 2018, the state launched the oil-backed cryptocurrency Petro. By the summertime of 2023, determination were reports that the authorities planned to liquidate the currency, however, its authoritative webpage is inactive functioning astatine clip of publication. 

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