Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants to Revoke All Crypto Licenses

Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants to Revoke All Crypto Licenses
Matis Mäeker, who was appointed head of Estonia’s anti-money laundering government agency, believes Estonia should scrap its current crypto regulations and start again, he said in an interview with the local news outlet Eesti Ekspress.Estonia has been known among crypto entrepreneurs as a friendly jurisdiction and getting a license there until recently has been easy. Now, that could change.Talking to journalists, Mäeker said that crypto companies have made “tens of billions of euros per year,” and that most of that total ended up in other countries and didn’t help the Estonian economy, according to the translated version of the interview…