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Congress moves to rebuild crypto crime task force after DOJ dismantled its dedicated crypto team
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Congress wants a task force for cryptocurrency theft months after the Justice Department disbanded NCET.
Key facts
- The FBI said its 2025 Internet Crime Report logged 181,565 complaints involving cryptocurrency and more than $11 billion in reported losses
- The bill text names senior representatives from the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (including Homeland Security Investigations), and the Treasury (including FinCEN)
- It creates a task-force model, while NCET operated as a dedicated DOJ enforcement team before the April 2025 shift
- Congress wants a task force for cryptocurrency theft months after the Justice Department disbanded NCET
Summary
01 Congress is weighing a DOJ cryptocurrency theft task force after the department disbanded NCET in April 2025. 02 The bill would centralize evidence handling, tracing, victim support, and coordination without changing crypto market regulation. 03 It still leaves funding, staffing, and response rules unspecified, raising doubts about whether coordination becomes real capacity. The proposal, introduced by Reps.