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The two administrators are Lithuanian and Russia’s national residenions, 46, and Aleksandr Mira seda, who “knows the steps to hide the plastic illegal activity on the platform,” According to the statement against him.
The doj says Garantex “receives hundreds of criminal and used to facilitate multiple crimes, including hacking, and exchanges, and the trade has been processed at $ 96 billion since 2019.
In the statement, the prosecution affects Besciokov in person allows transactions relating to cybercrinimals, including North Korean Government recognition as Lazarus groups.
Announcement of the Inductual Arrifies the day after the US Secret Service and the Legal Coalition of Legal Coalition take down and seize Garantex Official WebsiteChange the content with the banners displayed the Agency logo and announce the Sitemasm.
When TechCrunch hug three Garantex email address listed on the official page before takingdown, our email returned as not sent. Garanse does not respond to multiple requests to comment through a formal telegram channel.
Besciokov and Mira Sera Both are accused of money conspiracy, while Besciokov is also accused of conspiracy, and apply the business that is not searched. Both face up to a maximum of 20 years in prison for money reminder, when Besciokov faces another maximum sentence 20 years to conspiracy to violate business.
It is not clear that the two has been held. Shannon Shevlin, Speaks of Justice, Discussing TechCrunch If the Doj does not know that Mira Serda is held in the UAE.
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The US proseament is defined that Besciokov and Mira Serda knows that Crypto exchange is used for cruise money and actively working on the instance when Russia’s authorities ask. According to the doj, when the Russian law violations asked for some points associated with the account Mira Serda, the company provides incomplete information, and “claimed the account is not verified.”
“In fact, Garantex has associated with the account with a document identify the personal Mira Serda,” According to the statement.
Millions of Crypto seized, Doj asserted
Garantex has been the focus of the Western Government action for years.
In 2022, as part of some action against Russian cybercrime, Garantex TreasuryMentioning the analysis indicating that “more than $ 100 million transactions are associated with an actor that does not have illegal and dark curls, including almost $ 2.6 million from (Darksnet) Hydra.”
Also, in 2024, as part of sanctions against Russia to attack Ukraine, Euroup Pictures of Europaran Scedexemphasize the exchange “tightly with the built-in Russian banks.”
According to the doj, even though sanctions are performed by the US government, Besciokov and the violation of the transgression and violation of our transactions with the job with Garanestex with violation of sanctions. “
“For example, Garantex move the Cryptocurrency wallet for various virtual currency addresses daily to identify the transactions” to identify the transaction and guarantect of garutex accounts.
The doj also said the US-term enforcement over $ 26 million funds used to join the Garantex funeral money. The Doj talk informed the techcrunch if the Department of land is a total of 23,8884,85 tether and 35.57 Bitcoin in Bitcoin), about $ 3.2 million.
Even before the action of the law enforcement, Garantex announces Thursday if it has been suspended “all services, including the Cryptocurrency’s background,” after Tether stablesterer tether Blet Related Garantex holding more than $ 28 million.
“We have a bad news. Tether has been in the fight against Russian Kripto market,” Write Garantex on a formal telegram channel on AnnouncementSee rankings-. “We fights and will not give up! Please note that everything (tether) in the Russian wallet is currently in threat. As usual, we are the last one.”
After the Doj announcement on Friday, Garantex Sent a sign in the telegram About Scarmers “pretending to exchange Gartex reversed or offers to cancel funds.”
“This is all scammers! The purpose is to get access to your user’s personal data, the address of the wallet and other sensitive address,” the Russian announcement is read, according to the machine translation.
The announcement does not mention the takedown website, or not complement Bescikov and Mira Serda.
