Amid countries increasingly auctioning Bitcoin (BTC) seized in law enforcement deportment, some jurisdictions are fighting for authorization to confiscate crypto.

A state dominance in Belarus wants lawmakers to qualify them to seize cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin from criminals. The Investigative Committee of the Democracy of Belarus, a centralized arrangement of state law enforcement agencies, is purportedly planning to back a legal initiative that would grant them the authorization to confiscate crypto.

Republic of belarus now has legal regulation that allows the Investigative Commission to seize crypto

Ivan Noskevich, head of the Investigative Committee, publicly voiced the initiative in a March 9 interview with Belarusian country-endemic Television channel CTV. According to the executive, Belarus has had no legal regulation that would let the authority to seize cryptocurrency through enforcement actions to appointment.

According to the official, the Commission has been encountering problems while investigating criminal cases involving cryptocurrencies every bit part of the offense. As such, the Investigative Committee has proposed to amend the existing criminal procedure law to let the authority to seize crypto in such cases. Additionally, Noskevich believes that the authorisation should be able to confiscate crypto from actors who used it in crimes motivated past turn a profit.

The authorisation hopes to amend existing criminal procedure law

Noskevich further expressed hope that lawmakers in Belarus would respect the opinion of the Investigative Committee and will put necessary amendments into the existing criminal procedure law. He said:

"We've encountered such cases earlier, but there was no legal regulation of the machinery for seizing cryptocurrency. I hope that the legislators will mind to the opinion of the Investigative Commission, and such amendments volition be introduced into the criminal process legislation."

Cointelegraph has contacted the Investigative Committee for additional information but did not receive an immediate response. This story will be updated should they respond.

Although Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko reportedly legalized cryptocurrencies in the land back in 2017, Belarus doesn't appear to have been very active in terms of crypto-related developments to date. Among the latest crypto news from the country, Belarus' general prosecutor raised concerns over the role of crypto in tax evasion in June 2019. Previously, Republic of belarus' largest bank, Belarusbank, was reported to be considering setting upwards a cryptocurrency exchange.

Other jurisdictions worldwide actively seizing crypto from crimes

While the Investigative Committee is fighting to become authorized to confiscate crypto, a number of countries worldwide have been putting seized cryptocurrencies on auction equally function of a mutual practice. As such, the Belgian Federal regime plans to sale $125,000 worth of Bitcoin on March 24, 2020. As reported, the United States Marshals Service sold a total corporeality of 185,230 bitcoins confiscated during its enforcement operations.

Even so, some jurisdictions are not quite sure what to do with seized cryptocurrencies. On Feb. 25, Cointelegraph reported on Finnish Customs deliberating about what to do with 1,666 Bitcoins seized from drug criminals years ago. The authority purportedly doesn't want to auction the confiscated Bitcoin considering the cryptocurrency could be returned to the hands of criminals.