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BREAKING: Seoul Police Launch Full-Scale Hunt for Tether Laundromats

6/9/2026

BREAKING: Seoul Police Launch Full-Scale Hunt for Tether Laundromats BREAKING: South Korea is going to war on USDT laundering rings.

The National Office of Investigation just confirmed it is scaling up virtual asset units to dismantle so-called "Tether laundromats" — the OTC pipelines criminal syndicates use to flip dirty cash into stablecoins.

JUST IN: Park Seong-ju, head of the National Office of Investigation, told reporters in Seoul that every major criminal probe will now trace stablecoin flows. All now get a forensic chase across public blockchains.

Park made the call at a Seoul press conference, per The Korea Economic Daily. Specialized training programs are being built with the Financial Intelligence Unit.

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