Korean Police Ready To Accept Crypto For Traffic Fines
2022.08.19 20:01
Korean Police Ready To Accept Crypto For Traffic Fines
Budrigannews.com – South Korea’s Gunpo Police Station has broken ground by collecting arrears and negligence fines suitable for the untact era in a situation where face-to-face collection activities are difficult due to COVID-19, via a virtual asset seizure pilot project.
According to the pilot program, the Gunpo Police Station achieved about 88% of the target collection amount for non-payment of traffic fines in the first half of this year alone, after estimating that the current status of virtual currency holdings by exchanges was over 1 million won, because of the delinquents.
Kwak Kyung-ho, head of the Gunpo Police Station, said that “we will do our best to collect delinquents with strong delinquency measures against malicious delinquents.”
Largest Amount Of Fine Collected In The Past Three Years
According to the pilot program, “This is the largest amount of arrears fines collected in the past three years, exceeding the fines collected by the Gunpo Police Station last year (about 850 million won).”
As an example, the local police found that virtual currency worth 50 million won owned by a delinquent person whose salaries and deposits were seized due to non-payment of traffic arrears fine of about 2.5 million won – and seized it and collected it.
With the virtual asset seizure pilot project, the Gunpo Police Station achieved about 88% of the target collection amount for non-payment of traffic fines in the first half of this year alone.
“This year, the Gunpo Police Station’s target for non-payment of traffic fines was 1 billion won, and as of the end of June, about 880 million won was collected,” according to the details for the pilot program.
On the Flipside
- Recently, South Korea found 16 crypto exchanges violating the Specific Financial Information Act by the FSC. The government is handling the rise in crypto crimes.
