In this image supplied by the RCMP, officers are seen working. The RCMP said their money-laundering team began an investigation last year after a tip from European authorities

The RCMP say they have taken down a cryptocurrency platform that was being used mainly for criminal transactions, what the force claims is the largest crypto bust in Canadian history.

In a statement Thursday, the force’s federal policing wing in Quebec said it had recovered $56-million from a platform known as TradeOgre, “the first time that a cryptocurrency exchange platform has been dismantled by Canadian law enforcement.”

The Quebec RCMP said their money-laundering team began an investigation last year after a tip from European authorities and found that the platform had failed to register as a money services b

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