ФБР и Европол закрыли криптомиксер ChipMixer

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National authorities took down the platform's infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data.ChipMixer laundered money for ransomware perpetrators, darknet markets, fraudsters and state-sponsored actors, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Authorities from Germany and the U.S. have seized up to 44 million euros ($46.3 million) from ChipMixer, a noted cryptocurrency mixer, according to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).

The authorities took down the platform's infrastructure, seizing four servers, 7 terabytes of data and 1909.4 bitcoins (BTC) ($47.7 million), Europol said on Wednesday.

The seizure was also supported by Belgium, Poland and Switzerland.

One operator of ChipMixer, Minh Quốc Nguyễn, from Hanoi, Vietnam, was charged on Wednesday in Philadelphia with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and identity theft, the DOJ said.

The platform is believed to have enabled the laundering of 152,000 BTC – around $3.8 billion at current prices – since 2017, a large share of which was connected to ransomware groups, illicit goods trafficking and child sexual exploitation.

According to the DOJ, activities enabled by ChipMixer include over $700 million in bitcoin associated with wallets designated as stolen funds, including those related to heists by North Korean cyber actors, and bitcoin used by the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to purchase infrastructure for Linux-based malware Drovorub.

Mixing services gained increased prominence in August 2022 when Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control for facilitating North Korea’s money-laundering operations. Shortly after that, Tornado Cash’s web developer Alexey Pertsev was arrested.

Source: CoinDesk

 

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Правоохранительные органы захватили инфраструктуру платформы и изъяли €44,2 млн.

Правоохранительные органы нескольких европейских стран совместно с ФБР и Европолом захватили инфраструктуру криптомиксера ChipMixer и изъяли биткоины на €44 млн. Об этом сообщила полицейская служба Евросоюза. Власти Германии и США при поддержке спецслужб Бельгии, Польши и Швейцарии отключили инфраструктуру платформы.

В ходе операции было конфисковано 4 сервера, 7 Тб данных и 1,9 тыс. биткоинов (€44,2 млн). Сайт ChipMixer также больше не работает.

По данным Европола, сервис ChipMixer, созданный в середине 2017 года, был причастен к отмыванию денег и позволял пользователям скрывать следы преступлений, связанных с незаконным оборотом наркотиков или оружия, атаками программ-вымогателей и мошенничеством. Считается, что через платформу было отмыто в сумме 152 000 BTC (около €2,73 млрд.).

Миксер криптовалюты (тумблер) – сервис, который смешивает разные потоки потенциально идентифицируемой криптовалюты. Это повышает анонимность транзакций, поскольку затрудняет отслеживание криптовалюты.

В августе 2022 года криптовалютная платформа Tornado Cash попала под санкции Минфина США. Работа Tornado Cash была заблокирована ввиду того, что она использовалась в отмывании миллиардов долларов, а также для обхода санкций против КНДР.

source: europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/one-of-darkwebs-largest-cryptocurrency-laundromats-washed-out

 

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National authorities took down the platform's infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data.ChipMixer laundered money for ransomware perpetrators, darknet markets, fraudsters and state-sponsored actors, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Authorities from Germany and the US have seized up to 44 million euros ($46.3 million) from ChipMixer, a noted cryptocurrency mixer , according to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).

The authorities took down the platform's infrastructure, seizing four servers, 7 terabytes of data and 1909.4 bitcoins ( BTC ) ($47.7 million), Europol said on Wednesday.

The seizure was also supported by Belgium, Poland and Switzerland.

One operator of ChipMixer, Minh Quốc Nguyễn, from Hanoi, Vietnam, was charged on Wednesday in Philadelphia with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and identity theft, the DOJ said.

The platform is believed to have enabled the laundering of 152,000 BTC – around $3.8 billion at current prices of goods – since 2017, a large share of which was connected to ransomware groups, illicit trafficking and child sexual exploitation.

According to the DOJ, activities enabled by ChipMixer include over $700 million in bitcoin associated with wallets designated as stolen funds, including those related to heists by North Korean cyber actors, and bitcoin used by the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to purchase infrastructure for Linux-based malware Drovorub.

Mixing services increased increased prominence in August 2022 when Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control for the poor North Korea's money-laundering operations. Shortly after that, Tornado Cash's web developer Alexey Pertsev was arrested .

Source: CoinDesk

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