PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Bárbara Marinho e Pinto, Amanda Bueno Almeida and Lua Mota Santos, Rogério Alves & Associados Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL
recovery of the specific economic advantage obtained through the commission of a crime. This difficulty stems largely from the intangible, decentralised, and technologically complex nature of blockchain-based assets, which allows offenders to rapidly dissipate, fragment, or conceal illicit proceeds using global plat - forms, encryption systems, anonymous digital wal - lets, and obfuscation techniques such as mixers or tumblers.
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