Crypto fraud & Money laundering Investigation against Former Manchester United Player Anderson

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Anderson, a retired Manchester player, is accused of money laundering and fraud with the use of crypto assets. Anderson denied all the allegations.

Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira is a former Manchester United football player and Golden Boy Award winner. And also currently working as an assistant manager of Adana Demirspor, a club in Turkey. 

In the present time, Operation Criptoshow has been run since one year by the Rio Grande do Sul State Public Prosecutor’s office. In this operation total 8 people are under Investigation by the officers. In these 8 people including Anderson. 

According to the operation authorities, Anderson is involved in money laundering and he did this through the use of crypto assets. So they are investigating against Anderson deeply. But also Officers say that it will be quick to say that Anderson is involved in money laundering or any type of crypto fraud because they are still investigating.

The case in which Anderson is involved ( by mistake or intentionally not cleared) in fraud of $5.5 million that was stolen from a firm and then those fraudsters deposited money in 11 bank accounts in 4 states of Brazil.

Right now, Anderson denied all the allegations and said that they will cooperate with the investigators and will give all details to prove himself as a victim of this case. He also added that he is crypto investor since 2019, so it may happened just by coincidence.

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