Haven't heard major crime stories related to Crypto recently.
Are you kidding? It's on the news almost every day, journalists
love this topic. Below is the link to one of the latest articles, for example:
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/09/27/binance-says-it-buddied-with-uk-police-to-catch-crypto-criminal-who-stole-51m/The whole world's government is tightening the grip on the use case of crypto currencies. So countries have banned it and have started taking action against their citizens who happen to use it for any purpose whatsoever.
I think the situation is exactly the opposite of what you describe. Bitcoin is illegal in Algeria, Egypt, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nepal, and maybe in a couple of other countries, but it is perfectly legal in all civilized world. (It's a pity that people have to live in those countries I listed above. I don't mean to offend them. It's their governments that are uncivilized, not the people of those countries.)