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US judiciary Announced Friday Criminal allegations against administrators of the Russian Cryptocurrency Exchange Grantex on charges of violating US sanctions in addition to criminal and terrorist organizations, as well as violating US sanctions.
The two administrators are Lithuanian national and Russian resident Alexez Basciokov (1,) and Alexandra Mira Serda (1), the United Arab Emirates resident, who knew that criminal revenue was being laundered through Garantax and the platform was taken on its platform. According to the complaint Against them.
The DOJ says “Grantex earned millions of criminal earnings and used to facilitate various crimes including hacking, ransware, terrorism and drug trafficking,” and the exchange has been processed at least $ 1 billion cryptocurrency transactions since the 21st.
According to the complaint, the prosecutors accused Besiokov as the Lazers Group to personally allow the transaction with cyber criminals, including hackers.
The declaration of this allegation came a day after a coalition of US Secret Service and Law enforcement agencies Seizes the official websites of the GrantexAnnounces to replace their contents with a banner feature of the logos of the agencies and to announce the seizure of the site.
When TechCrunch reached the three guarantax email addresses listed on its official page before Techtown, our emails returned as uninterrupted. Grantex did not respond to multiple requests for comment through his official telegram channel.
Besiokov and Mira are both accused of conspiracy to smuggle money, while Besciokov has been accused of conducting sanctions and conspiracies in violation of non -licensing money infection. Both faces a maximum of 20 years imprisonment for money laundering, while Besiokov has a maximum of 20 years imprisonment for a conspiracy to violate US sanctions and has more than five years punished for a conspiracy to operate unlicensed money.
It is unclear whether the two were arrested. The judicial spokesman Shannon Shevlin told TechCrunch that DOJ did not know if Mira Sarda was arrested in the United Arab Emirates.
Two charges did not reach TechCrunch for comments to the administrator of the two.
US prosecutors complained that Basiokov and Mira Serda knew that their crypto exchange was used to smuggle money and the Russian authorities were actively working to do it even after asking questions. According to the DOJ, when Russian law enforcement requested the record at any time related to an MIRA Sarda account in Grantex, the company provided incomplete information and “claimed that the account was not verified.”
“In reality, the Grantex account associated with Mira Sardar’s personal identification documents,” according to the complaint.
Krypto seized millions of people, confirmed the DOJ
Grantex has been the focus of the Western government’s move for several years.
In 2022, as part of multiple activities against the Russian cybercrime, US Treasury Authorized GarantExAn analysis that shows that “more than $ 1 million for transactions is involved with the Darknet Markets, including Million Million Million from Russian [Ransomware as a Service] Including Gang Consi and about 2.6 million dollars [darknet market] Hydra. ”
Also, in 2024, as part of multiple restrictions against Russia to attack Ukraine, Grantex Authorized European UnionComplaint of this exchange is “closely involved with the EU-appreciated Russian banks.”
According to the DOJ, despite the sanctions imposed by the US government, Basiocov and his co-consists of the US-based entities continued to adopt the ban and “designs the guarantax activities to avoid and violate US sanctions and induce US business.”
“For example, Grantex transfers its operational cryptocurrency wallets to various virtual coin addresses on a daily basis so that it makes it difficult to detect and block guarantax accounts on behalf of US-based cryptocurrency exchange,” Read the DOJ announcement.
The DOJ also says that US law enforcement is funded by more than $ 2 million millions of dollars to facilitate the smuggling of Grantex. DOJ spokesman Chevlin TechCrunch told TechCrunch that the division was a total of 20,3,3.755 tiers in binence and 57 Bitcoin (about $ 1 million as Friday), about $ 26.2 million.
Grantex announced on Thursday that it was applied to the law that it suspended “all services including cryptocurrency withdrawal” Wallets blocked by Stabben Issuer Tither Grantex belongs to which was more than $ 20 million.
“We have bad news. Tither entered the war against the Russian Crypto Bazar, “Grantex wrote on one of his official telegram channels DeclarationThe “We are fighting and will not leave! Note please [Tether] Russian wallets are currently under threat. As usual, we are the first, but not the end. “
Grantex after DOJ’s announcement on Friday Posted a warning in the wire Scammers are “reclaimed by pretending to be an exchanged guarantax exchange or withdrawing funds.”
“These are all scammers! Their goal is to gain access to users’ personal data, wallet address and other sensitive information, “this announcement is read in Russian as per the translation of a machine.
The announcement was not mentioned in the website of the website, or Basicov and Mira Serda.
