The man who wanted for Rs 83.00,00.00 0000 Crifto fraud arrested in Kerala

New Delhi:

Lithuanian, who wanted in the US on the mass cripple fraud, was arrested in Kerala, officials told officials on Wednesday. The Accused, Aleksej Beshijokov, founded the Criptocurrency exchange “GUARENDE”, allegedly to wash revenue from criminal activities such as redemption ransomows, transferring computers and narcotics transactions.

Bešnikov was arrested when he planned to escape the country, officials said.

According to American Secret Services, Bešnikov, over a period of almost six years, allegedly controlled the warrantex, which made the money laundering (over $ 86 billion) in cryptic transactions of transnative criminal organizations (including terrorist organizations) and violated sanctions.

“Garrant received hundreds of millions in criminal proceedings and was used to facilitate different crimes, including hacking, ransom, terrorism and drug trade, often with significant influence of American victims,” ​​he said.

Officials said Bešnikov was the primary technical administrator of the guarantex and was responsible for obtaining and maintaining the critical platform infrastructure, as well as reviewing and approving transactions. He looked at him at many charges, including the conspiracy to make money washing the title of 18 US Code, the conspiracy to violate American international actions on extraordinary economic powers and conspirations to manage non-libered money services.

Sani sanctioned him in April 2022. years.

Earlier this week, the Foreign Ministry received a temporary arrest warrant at the request of American officials. After that, the joint effort of the Central Investigation Institute (CBI) and Kerala Police arrested Bešnikovo from Kerala Tiruvananthapuram.

He will soon be produced before the court of Patiala House, officials said.