Russian Crypto Exchange Garantex seized by work on law enforcement

The American Secret Service, working with the coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has confiscated and seized the guarantor’s Russia’s Russia accused of being connected to Tarcelet Marks and Ronsomware.

On Thursday, the official website guarantees the notification in which the exchanged exchange seized secret service after the order by the American Law Office for the Eastern Virginia Law Office.

This is the latest action that Western governments under exchange in Moscow.

Last month, the European Union also sanctioned the guarantor as, saying “It is closely related to Russian banks with the EU sanctioned.” It was part of a package of sanctions against Russia due to his invasion on Ukraine.

2022. years, American State Sanctioned Guarantorstating that more than 100 million dollars are transactions “associated with illegal actors and stamps for darknet,” including the infamous Russian kerna RsomMavare Gans, and the Darknet markets.

The notice of Takedov, which he saw Techcrunch, said that the USA was conducted with the Federal Investigation Ministry, the Dutch National Police, the German Federal Criminal Office, Frankfurt’s National Investigation Bureau and Estonian National Criminal.

Techcrunch visited all these commentary organizations. At the time of writing, only FBI replied, decreasing for a comment.

Techcrunch also visited the guarantor via official email addresses on the list before the attack, as well as through the telegram of the company. The guarantor did not answer these messages.

Techcrunch has checked the revocation notice on the website by analysis of the guarantor Internet domain. From Thursday, the guarantex’s web domain now points to servers known to controlled the secret service. The same server also hosts a few more confiscation notifications on the websites that made a secret service in recent years.

After the seizure, the guarantor did not mention the work of the Law on the Implementation of the Law in official telegrams. On Thursday morning, guarantor announced That it “suspended all services, including the withdrawal of cryptocurrency”, according to the mechanical translation of the announcement.

The decision came after the statist of Stablecoin taught $ 28 million of his cryptocurrency on the guarantor.

“We have bad news,” Garrant wrote. “We fight and we won’t give up! Note that everything (Tether) in Russian wallets are currently under threat.”