{"id":4560,"date":"2025-03-07T18:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/feds-bust-crypto-kingpins-in-billion-dollar-russian-laundering-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:21:58","slug":"feds-bust-crypto-kingpins-in-billion-dollar-russian-laundering-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/feds-bust-crypto-kingpins-in-billion-dollar-russian-laundering-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Bust Crypto Kingpins in Billion-Dollar Russian Laundering Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it charged two administrations with operating a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency money laundering service as part of a coordinated action with Germany and Finland to take down the online infrastructure used to operate the digital asset exchange Garantex.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In doing so, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against\u00a0Aleksej Besciokov, 46, a Lithuanian national and Russian resident, and Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national and United Arab Emirates resident, who faces a separate charge of conspiracy to violate sanctions and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it charged two administrations with operating a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency money laundering service as part of a coordinated action with Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2539,4965,878,1630,4966,3027,3203,583],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-billiondollar","tag-bust","tag-crypto","tag-feds","tag-kingpins","tag-laundering","tag-russian","tag-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}