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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 10 Jan \ on: Operators of Cryptocurrency Mixers Charged with Money Laundering Politics_And_Law
So many questions. They are Russian nationals. Were they in the US on visas? Were they arrested in another country? Is the US just the global police that can just pluck a person out of any country and put them in front of judge and then throw them in a dark hole for stuff like this?
If this is true, the world is much darker than most Americans understand and the US is not a good guy.
Based off of what I am reading it sounds like two of them were in either the US or Finland. Tarasov has not been caught and remains at large.
Where they screwed up was they essentially tried to rebrand Blender.io as Sinbad.io using the same infrastructure which was seized in Finland. Blender had been sanctioned by the US back in 2022 for allowing the Lazarus Group to launder their proceeds from the Axie hack so relaunching it was clearly a crime. Not to mention it was easily traced from what I can tell.