The National Fraud Investigation Office has sent information requests to 60 financial entities, including banks, ATM operators and exchange offices about their clients and their crypto transactions, El Confidencial reports.
The government does not only demand information about the crypto currency activities but also wants to identify the buyers and sellers as well as amounts in euros of their crypto currency transactions, exchange rates and commissions applied in euros.
With these data, the National Fraud Investigation Office is planning to take actions against citizens that are allegedly attempting to avoid taxation with their crypto related activities.
The drive originated in part from a probe by the National Fraud Investigation Office on bank accounts opened abroad by foreign-exchange shops.
By Ksenia Batanova