Internal RCMP documents reveal the police force is being inundated with a skyrocketing number of reports about cryptocurrency-related crime — offences police admit they are often unable to investigate.

An “informal audit” obtained by the IJF through access to information legislation found RCMP detachments received reports of just 18 cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2015 compared to more than 3,900 in 2023, the last year for which complete data was available.