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NEWS: UK warns there are ‘no legal crypto ATMs’ as it confirms landmark criminal case

Therese Chambers, the FCA's joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight. Credit: FCA

By Paul O’Donoghue, Senior Correspondent

The UK has brought its first criminal charges against an individual for allegedly operating illegal cryptocurrency ATMs. 

The defendant, Olumide Osunkoya, a 45-year-old resident of London, is accused of running a network of unregistered crypto ATMs.

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