Hakim Ontario memerintahkan hingga $20 juta uang tunai pengunjuk rasa, cryptocurrency dibekukan.-Ontario judge orders up to $20 million of protesters' cash, cryptocurrency frozen.

Para pengunjuk rasa menyaksikan dari luar barisan petugas polisi yang membentuk pagar di sekitar kendaraan yang diblokade di Jalan Rideau, ketika polisi bertujuan untuk mengakhiri protes yang sedang berlangsung terhadap tindakan COVID-19 yang telah berkembang menjadi protes anti-pemerintah yang lebih luas, pada hari ke-22, di Ottawa, pada hari Jumat, 18 Februari 2022. -Protesters watch from beyond a line of police officers forming an enclosure around blockaded vehicles on Rideau Street, as police aim to end an ongoing protest against COVID-19 measures that has grown into a broader anti-government protest, on its 22nd day, in Ottawa, on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. 


Feb18, 2022. 6:00PM.
Ketika polisi bekerja untuk menangkap penyelenggara konvoi yang memblokade Ottawa di jalan-jalan pusat kota, jenis penegakan yang berbeda dimainkan di pengadilan, di mana sekelompok warga mengamankan perintah untuk membekukan jutaan aset milik penggalang dana dan penyelenggara konvoi.
 
Para pemimpin konvoi sekarang dibatasi untuk memindahkan aset senilai $20 juta yang terkait dengan pendudukan, dari rekening bank hingga penggalangan dana hingga aset cryptocurrency, dalam apa yang dikenal sebagai perintah mareva yang berlaku di seluruh dunia, menurut perintah yang dikeluarkan oleh Justice Calum MacLeod  .
 
“Ini pertama kalinya dalam sejarah hukum Kanada bahwa bitcoin dan cryptocurrency telah tunduk pada perintah pembekuan,” kata pengacara untuk class action, Paul Champ.  

Champ mengajukan permohonan tersebut sebagai bagian dari gugatan class action yang sama yang mengakibatkan perintah terhadap klakson keras yang telah menjadi ciri konvoi, yang telah menjadi perlengkapan di pusat kota Ottawa selama lebih dari dua minggu.
 
Permohonan dibuat untuk mengamankan aset untuk pengadilan jika permohonan yang lebih besar — ​​kompensasi atas gangguan yang disebabkan konvoi — berhasil.  Itu berarti beberapa dari jutaan yang dikumpulkan untuk konvoi dapat dialihkan untuk memberi kompensasi kepada penduduk Ottawa.
 
Salah satu pengacara yang mewakili mereka dalam konvoi, Keith Wilson, mengatakan kepada CTV News Toronto bahwa dia akan melawan perintah penyitaan, yang dikeluarkan tanpa pemberitahuan kepada peserta konvoi.
 
"Perintah terbaru akan ditentang sama seperti kami membawa tindakan pengadilan untuk menjatuhkan semua upaya pemerintah lainnya untuk mencegah warga Kanada mendukung tujuan yang mereka yakini," tulis Wilson dalam email.
 
Perintah ini terpisah dari perintah pembekuan dana dari GiveSendGo, sebuah situs web crowdfunding Amerika, yang diperoleh oleh Jaksa Agung Ontario, dan dari kekuatan tambahan apa pun yang diberikan kepada pemerintah federal melalui penerapan Undang-Undang Keadaan Darurat.
 
Aplikasi pengadilan menjelaskan berbagai cara para pengunjuk rasa telah mencoba untuk mengumpulkan uang, pertama melalui penggalangan dana di platform GoFundMe, yang mengumpulkan lebih dari $10 juta tetapi menutup penggalangan dana dan mengembalikan sebagian besar uang.  TD Bank telah mengajukan ke pengadilan untuk arahan tentang apa yang harus dilakukan dengan kira-kira $1,4 juta yang berhasil masuk ke rekening pribadi.
 
Para pengunjuk rasa beralih ke GiveSendGo, platform crowdfunding Amerika yang mengumpulkan lebih dari US$9,3 juta sebelum dananya diperintahkan dibekukan.  Platform tersebut mengejek otoritas Kanada di Twitter.  Awal pekan ini, cache data donasi diungkapkan oleh peretas.
 
Para pengunjuk rasa sejak itu beralih ke cryptocurrency seperti Bitcoin, dengan satu, Pat King, bahkan berusaha membuat cryptocurrency sendiri, kata aplikasi itu.  Itu sebabnya pengacara menargetkan aset di banyak bank, situs web crowdfunding, dan setidaknya 120 dompet cryptocurrency, kata aplikasi itu.
 
“Ketika taktik Konvoi Kebebasan yang melanggar hukum menjadi semakin jelas, platform penggalangan dana yang sah tidak lagi akan mendukung mereka,” kata aplikasi itu.
 
Di Toronto, kepala petugas anti-pencucian uang untuk pertukaran cryptocurrency Bitbuy mengatakan kepada CTV News bahwa mereka telah menerima pemberitahuan dari RCMP yang meminta tindakan lebih lanjut pada daftar akun.
 
"Ada sekitar 34 dari mereka," kata Joseph Iuso.  "Apa yang kami lakukan adalah melihat alamat-alamat itu dan membandingkan untuk melihat apakah ada interaksi dengan kami."

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As police worked to arrest organizers of the convoy blockading Ottawa in downtown streets, a different kind of enforcement was playing out in court, where a group of citizens secured an order freezing millions in assets belonging to convoy fundraisers and organizers.

Convoy leaders are now restricted from moving as much as $20 million in assets tied to the occupation, from bank accounts to fundraisers to cryptocurrency assets, in what’s known as a mareva order that is in effect worldwide, according to the order issued by Justice Calum MacLeod.

“It’s the first time in Canadian legal history that bitcoin and cryptocurrency has been subject to a freezing order,” said the lawyer for the class action, Paul Champ.                                                

Champ made the application as part of the same class action lawsuit that resulted in an injunction against loud horns that had become a hallmark of the convoy, which has been a fixture in downtown Ottawa for more than two weeks.

The application was made to secure assets for the court should the larger application — compensation for disruptions the convoy has caused — be successful. That would mean some of the millions raised for the convoy could be diverted to recompense Ottawa residents.

One of the lawyers representing those in the convoy, Keith Wilson, told CTV News Toronto he would fight back against the seizing order, which was issued without any notice to convoy participants.

“The most recent order will be challenged just like we are bringing court actions to strike down all of the other government attempts to prevent Canadians from supporting a cause they believe in,” Wilson wrote in an email.

This order is separate from the order freezing funds from GiveSendGo, an American crowdfunding website, that was obtained by Ontario’s Attorney-General, and from any extra powers given to the federal government through its invocation of the Emergencies Act.

The court application describes the various ways the protesters have tried to raise money, first through a fundraiser on the platform GoFundMe, which raised more than $10 million but shut the fundraiser down and refunded most of the money. TD Bank has already applied to the court for direction on what to do with roughly $1.4 million that did make it into a personal account.

The protesters turned to GiveSendGo, an American crowdfunding platform that raised more than US$9.3 million before its funds were ordered frozen. The platform taunted Canadian authorities on Twitter. Earlier this week, a cache of donation data was revealed by hackers.

The protesters have since turned to cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, with one, Pat King, even seeking to create his own cryptocurrency, the application says. That’s why lawyers targeted the assets in numerous banks, crowdfunding websites, and at least 120 cryptocurrency wallets, the application says.

“As the Freedom Convoy’s unlawful tactics became increasingly obvious, legitimate fundraising platforms were no longer will to support them,” the application says.

In Toronto, the chief anti-money laundering officer for cryptocurrency exchange Bitbuy told CTV News they have already received a notice from the RCMP requesting further action on a list of accounts.

"There are about 34 of them," Joseph Iuso said. "What we do is we look at those addresses and compare to see if there is any interaction with us."
  

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