The United States removes sanctions against Russian crypto service facilitating sanctions of belittance

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The American Foreign Aid Office removed the Tornado Cash Cripto service from the list of sanctioned entities and facilitated sanctions against their Russian founder.

Source: Ofac in the statement on its website

Details: Ofac noted that cash Tornadoes were removed from specialized citizens’ lists (SDN).

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This list contains individuals and entities that are blocked in different sanctions programs.

Ukrainian news Outlet Liga.net reported that Tornado is cash Etherum services for mixing cryptocurnancy. In August 2022. The American Ministry of Finance added Tornado Cash to the SDN list, accusing washing more than 7 billion US dollars, including US $ 455 million, the North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus was abolished.

Criptocurrenci Service was founded by Roman Semenov, Russian National Desired by FBI for money laundering.

The FBI reported that Semenov and its co-workers, who manages the Cash Service of Tornado, was likely to make hundreds of sanctions, helping the criminal lazarus group transfer of criminals from cryptocurnent wallet marked as the Ofac property.

Semenov remains In the list of US sanctions under measures aimed at north Korea, but has been removed from the list of persons dealing with significant malicious cyber activities.

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