A recent report revealed that Japan has dealt with more than 7,000 money laundering cases involving cryptocurrency in 2018. This is a vast increase over the previous year when the total number was just 670.
It’s still only a drop in the bucket, as those 7,000 cases represent only 1.6 percent of the total number of money laundering cases in Japan for that period.
Read more here:
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/02/28/1-6-percent-money-laundering-cryptocurrency-japan-2018/