Tag: sanctioned
Fewer Transactions Sanctioned by U.S. Government’s OFAC Are Getting Through on Ethereum, Data Shows
This large percentage resulted, in part, from the fact that a small number of relayers were available in MEV-Boost's early days, and the most popular [...]
Crypto Mixer Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury for North Korea Allegations, as FBI and Finish Police Seize Website
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, designated two Bitcoin addresses and two email addresses tied to Sinbad, banning all U.S. person [...]
Ex-Tory chair Brandon Lewis joins firm with sanctioned oligarch links
Anneliese Dodds, the chair of the Labour party, said it was "totally unacceptable" for Sir Brandon to advise a firm "owned by sanctioned Russian oliga [...]
Ethereum Wallet Tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Sanctioned by US Treasury
A U.S. Treasury press release states that Jimenez Castro "operates money laundering organization that uses virtual currency and wire transfers, among [...]
OKX and ByBit remove sanctioned Russian banks from payments list
At least two major crypto exchanges followed Binance in excluding Russian banks under international financial sanctions from their payment options. Ti [...]
Binance P2P removes sanctioned Russian banks from payments list
Crypto exchange Binance has removed “yellow” and “green” payment options from its peer-to-peer service after being criticized for using these code wor [...]
Binance Delists Sanctioned Russian Banks From Peer-to-Peer Service
“When gaps are pointed out to us, we seek to address and remediate them as soon as possible. In line with our ongoing commitments, payment methods on [...]
North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus Moves Atomic Wallet Fund via Sanctioned Exchange: Elliptic
Nearly $35 million worth of various tokens were stolen from Atomic Wallet, a centralized storage and wallet service, on June 3. These tokens include b [...]
U.S.-Made Technology Is Flowing to Sanctioned Russian Airlines
Last August, Oleg Patsulya, a Russian citizen living near Miami, emailed a Russian airline that had been cut off from Western technology and materials [...]
Alexey Pertsev, Developer of Sanctioned Privacy Protocol, Can Be Released Pending Trial: Dutch Court
Pertsev will be released next Wednesday, allowing time for the installation of electronic monitoring devices at his home, but will not have to pay any [...]
Alexey Pertsev, Developer of Sanctioned Privacy Protocol, Can be Released on Bail: Dutch Court
Pertsev will be released next Wednesday, allowing time for the installation of electronic monitoring devices at his home. Shortly before Pertsev’s arr [...]
US REPO task force names crypto as target in efforts involving $58B in sanctioned assets
The United States Treasury has announced deputies of the multilateral Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs, or REPO, Task Force have targeted crypto [...]
Sanctioned Mixer Blender Re-Launched as Sinbad, Elliptic Says
After Sinbad was launched, most of incoming transactions would come from a wallet linked to Blender.io, and Sinbad operators rewarded promoters of the [...]
Russian Cybercrime Gang Trickbot Sanctioned by US, UK
Other members sanctioned include Maksim Mikhailov, a developer known as “Baget,” Valentin Karyagin, a developer known as “Globus,”Mikhail Iskritskiy, [...]
Crypto Exchange Bittrex to Pay $30M to Settle OFAC Charges It Allowed Sanctioned Jurisdictions to Trade
Between 2014 and late 2017, Bittrex allowed around 1,800 people in sanctioned jurisdictions – including Iran, Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Crimea – to condu [...]