Yesterday Bloomberg I went out material About dozens š·šŗ Moscow companies cashing cryptocurrency. All such companies are united by a location-the Tower of the Federation-Vostok in Moscow City. According to data šŗšø The US Treasury, at least four such companies are associated with laundering money received by extorting šµ 1.6 billion.
Why did the American Ministry of Finance even become interested in the ācrammā of cryptocurrencies in the Moscow skyscraper? The fact is that this year, hackers, mainly based in Russia or Eastern Europe, Earned šµ 590 million on attacks on schools, enterprises, state organizations and medical institutions in the United States in order to obtain ransom ā this is 42% more than for the entire 2020.
Separately, we note that one of these companies turned out to be Suex OTCHe fell under US sanctions at the end of September. Among other potential victims of financial regulators are allocated Eggchange And Cashbank -The largest crypto foreign Binance Already stopped all operations with these companies. It is highly likely that soon new sanctions will follow against Russian companies involved in cashing cryptocurrencies.
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