We will talk about the Grambit exchange, which is quite popular in the City.
If we analyze the “purity” of Grambit today, it may seem simply exemplary. But there are nuances. Over the past couple of years, the exchange has moved to a third-party crypto wallet service. What does this mean: the wallet has a single external address, to which all the money for all users actually comes, and then the received funds move inside the wallet, without leaving any public traces in the blockchain. Therefore, it is not possible in principle to track the “purity” of funds received into the Grambit account today. 
However, we do have information about what funds were coming into Grambit in 2021-2022, before it moved to a third-party wallet. In those days, Grambit was placed on different exchanges (which kicked it out one by one – apparently there was a reason), and the blockchain still remembers everything that it accepted into its deposit addresses. And he accepted a lot of interesting things, and with enviable regularity.
Thus, 416 BTC tagged with “Ransomware” were successfully delivered to Grambit. This in itself is a very toxic tag that marks funds received by hackers, extortionists, and distributors of all kinds of malicious viruses. But here it is worth noting separately that Grambit accepted funds related to the notorious hacker groups ALPHV Blackcat and DarkSide, which attacked critical infrastructure, including hospitals, which caused a significant number of human deaths, including citizens of Russia and the CIS. In addition to funds clearly marked as “Ransomware,” Grambit accepted another 402.18 BTC from the Jambler mixer (and, as you know, crypto is not simply put into mixers: they are used solely for the purpose of “covering tracks”).
In total, Grambit made 818 BTC of extremely dubious origin in 2021-2022 alone. And this, for a moment, is almost 5 billion rubles at the current exchange rate. Agree, not weak. The question is why no one was interested in this then. However, good friends in law enforcement always open up immense business opportunities.
What else interesting is known about Grambit. Many secrets and mysteries are hidden by one of its actual founders, known as Vorobey (aka Alexander Aleksandrovich Vorobyov, native of Khabarovsk, 01/16/1989, Telegram nickname @vrbbtc, possible tel. 89215964130, who for some reason deleted all his social networks ).
Sparrow’s personal deposit address on Binance (1HtURPQDKDZ7N3CH2rShSJsKbRVzU7nSvQ) consists of almost half of proceeds from the darknet site. He also has a second address, which belongs to his drop Andrey Vladimirovich Bautin, born in 1984, but in fact belongs to Sparrow (1HBcnZtJFfkCuFZ5Nkf7UbCoBs8arCqh31). In Vorobyov’s second wallet, 45% of the funds also came from the darknet.
Sparrow owns another exchanger in the City, Excoin. Apparently, Sparrow conducts his drug activities through him. Blockchain analyzers show how one of the deposit addresses of the exchange on one of the exchanges (3JwoCidJvij79RGpYTBrL1ZmXpLJTWFDvX) regularly accepts crypto from the darknet site. The total amount of funds received for the exchange service from there was more than 35 BTC.
Comrade Overseers, we have practically done all the work for you here. Stop by and take a look, will you?
Or, like in 21, you will come in again for show, but shrug your shoulders, saying that everything is supposedly clean and you didn’t find anything suspicious? This time, if they “agree” with you again, it will be much more difficult for you to get away with it.
Read more about Sparrow’s environment and Grambit addresses on our website
Isn’t it time to gut the Sparrow’s Nests in the City?
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