
Article contentĪn Ottawa judge says she will decide on Tuesday whether to grant bail to Ottawa protester Tamara Lich. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The RCMP added that it was the responsibility of the banks to make decisions on freezing accounts, not an order from law enforcement, with daily communications intended to help the financial institutions, when possible, in determining when assets could be unfrozen. “Thus far police have shared several information packages of persons, vehicles and companies involved directly or indirectly in an activity prohibited under the Order.” “We are already seeing results, including: the freezing of 113 financial products the disclosure of 47 entities 251 Bitcoin addresses have been shared with virtual currency exchangers and one financial institution proactively freezing the account of a payment processor to a value of $3.8M.”Ī related media release said police were in constant communication with financial institutions to help them make the proper determination, according to the powers of the emergency measure order, before they take action to freeze financial products.

“With regards to the enacting and application of the Economic Emergency Measure Order, police partners are working to collect relevant information on persons, vehicles and companies,” the post said. In an online post Saturday night, the RCMP said that, under the authority of the Emergencies Act, police partners were continuing to work with Canadian financial institutions, enhancing the effectiveness of investigations into blockades.

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