Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland

Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf:

I myself have not seen evidence of it happening. I do not know whether Ms Donnery has anything to say to that. As we know, in this whole crypto world, there are things that are pretty evident to us and then there are things that are just happening somewhere on the Internet that are not evident to us. It would not be a surprise, therefore, in view of the players involved in committing the aggression in Ukraine, that many attempts are probably being made to circumvent the sanctions using technology, whether it is actually using crypto or using other tools. Ms Donnery might have something more to say.