{"id":6392,"date":"2025-06-10T06:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/feds-bust-russian-executive-in-530m-crypto-driven-sanctions-evasion-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T06:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:35:40","slug":"feds-bust-russian-executive-in-530m-crypto-driven-sanctions-evasion-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/feds-bust-russian-executive-in-530m-crypto-driven-sanctions-evasion-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Bust Russian Executive in $530M Crypto-Driven Sanctions Evasion Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a 22-count indictment on Monday in New York federal court charging a Russian citizen with using his digital asset company to funnel over $500 million of overseas payments through American banks and cryptocurrency exchanges while concealing the source and purpose of the transactions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Iurii Gugnin, 38, is the founder, president, treasurer and compliance officer of the U.S.-based Evita Investments Inc. and Evita Pay Inc., court records show. Gugnin\u00a0allegedly used both companies to enable foreign customers, many of whom held funds at sanctioned Russian banks, to provide him with cryptocurrency, which he then laundered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a 22-count indictment on Monday in New York federal court charging a Russian citizen with using his digital asset company to funnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6245,4965,6246,6247,3971,1630,3203,980,583],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-530m","tag-bust","tag-cryptodriven","tag-evasion","tag-executive","tag-feds","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","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=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}