Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation

The US Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has adopted and seized the Russian cryptocurrency exchange website, accused of involved with the Diornet Markets and Ransomware hackers.

On Thursday, the official Grantex website was replaced with a notice that the Eastern District of Virginia was occupied by the Domain Secret Service of the Exchange after the Attorney Office warrant in the United States.

This is the latest step taken by Western governments against Moscow -based exchange.

Last month, the European Union also approved the Guarantax, Guys This is “closely involved with the EU-approved Russian banks.” It was part of the sanctions package against Russia to attack Ukraine.

In 2022, US Treasury Authorized GarantExIt is alleged that more than $ 100 million transactions were made on the exchanges “illegal actors and Darknet Markets”, including “the infamous Russian Ranswear’s gang consist and Darknet Market Hydra.

The Techdown notice, which was seen by TechCunch, said that the US judiciary, Federal Investigation Bureau, Europeal, Dutch National Police, German Federal Faujdari Police Office (Bundescriminalomt or BKA), Frankfurt General Prosecutor Office, Finnish National of Investment, and the Finnish National.

TechCrunch has reached all these companies to comment. At the time of writing, only the FBI responded, refused to comment.

Before the seizure of TechCrunch, the company reached the guarantee through the company’s telegram account through the official email addresses listed on the site. Grantex did not respond to these messages.

TechCrunch Grantex has analyzed the Internet-Feesing Domain Records and verified the seizure notification of the website. Until Thursday, the web domain of Grantex is now pointing to servers known as controlled by the Secret Service. The same server has also been hosts of several other website seized notices run by the Secret Service in recent years.

After the seizure, Grantex did not mention the law enforcement operation on his official telegram channels. Thursday morning, Grantex Declaration According to a machine translation of the announcement it was “all services with the withdrawal of cryptocurrency”.

The decision came after the Stablecayen issue of the Issuer Tither Grantex became a frost of $ 28 million in his cryptocurrency.

“We have bad news,” Grantex wrote. “We are fighting and will not leave! Note please [Tether] Russian wallets are currently under threat. “