The Spanish Ministry of the Inside in the present day awarded Prosegur custody of the bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies seized in police raids. The contract for two.8 million euros (equal to about 3.24 million {dollars}) comes into impact in three months and lasts 4 years.
The settlement, printed on the Public Sector Contracting Portal, covers cloud administration and custody underneath the Cryptoasset Markets Regulation (MiCA).
The rules for the regulation of Europe’s digital asset market don’t set up a direct obligation for international locations to rent crypto asset custodians (CASP) particularly to safeguard seizures or confiscations. Nonetheless, the regulation regulates custody providers on the whole, which forces Spain to pick out an organization that’s topic to MiCA regulation.
Though there isn’t any proof that Prosegur has but obtained a license as a cryptoasset service supplier, in response to the record of the Nationwide Securities Market Fee (CNMV), the corporate is already actively exploring the sector. As well as, it must be taken under consideration that till December 30, 2025, current suppliers can function and not using a full license in the event that they meet stipulations.
The Spanish firm supplies custody of the money of huge establishments on this planet amongst different safety providers. AND two years in the past, the agency launched Prosegur Crypto.
“It is without doubt one of the initiatives that we began two years in the past considering that, if we’re the custodians of the cash in banknotes that exist on this planet, in the identical approach we could possibly be the custodians of cryptocurrencies or any tokenized asset.” This was defined by José Ángel Fernández Freire, the innovation director of Prosegur Money in an interview with CriptoNoticias.
In any case, there isn’t any public and aggregated official file that particulars the precise whole of bitcoin or cryptocurrencies seized by Spain till November 2025. Authorities, such because the Civil Guard and Nationwide Police, publish figures by particular person operation in annual studies or communications, and not using a unified international counter.
For instance of this, in June of this yr Spanish authorities reported the seizure of cryptocurrencies price 490,000 euros, as reported by CriptoNoticias on the time.
Spain has a protracted historical past of seizures of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, pushed by police operations in opposition to cash laundering and arranged crime. In April 2025, the nation confronted the theft of 17 million euros in digital belongings that had been in judicial custody in what was the nation’s largest crypto asset operation so far. For this reality, an worker of the judicial administration was accused.
That’s the reason now, with Prosegur on the helm, seizures could possibly be managed with higher safety, aligning the nation with European Union requirements.
