Russian Crypto Exchange Arantex was seized by law enforcement operation

The US secret service, which works with the international law enforcement agencies, seized a Russian cryptocurrency exchange, GaranteX website related to Darknet markets and ransomware hackers.

The official Garantex website on Thursday was replaced by the notice that the Secret Service was seized by the US Deputy Association for the Virginia’s Eastern region of Virginia.

This is the latest measures against Western governments against Moscow.

Last month, the European Union also sanctioned as GaranteX, lean This is closely linked to the EU-sanctioned Russian banks. ” This was part of the sanctions on Russia for the occupation of Ukraine.

In 2022 US Treasury Sanction Garantex“Exchange Ransomware gang” and Darknet Market Hydra is more than $ 100 million in operations with “illegal actors and dark markets”, including ”

Takeedown, the operation, the US Department of Justice, Europol, EURNER National Police, German Federal Police Department (Bundeskriminalamt or BK), Finnish National Investigation Bureau and Estonian National Police Bureau.

TechCrunch has reached all these organizations for comment. Only ftb responded during the writing, refused to comment.

TechCrunch also reached Shubantex via official email addresses, including the official email addresses listed on the site, as well as through the company’s telegram account. GaranteX did not respond to these messages.

TechCrunch, GaranteX’s internet facing domain records confirmed the notification of the website. On Thursday, GaranteX’s web area now points to servers that are managed by the Secret Service. The same server also has several other websites in recent years.

After the arrest, GaranteX did not provide any information about the law enforcement operation on the official telegram channels. Thursday morning, Garantex declared This is due to the translation of the announcement “all services, including the removal of cryptist.”

The decision was frozen at $ 28 million in GaranteX after the issuer of Stablecoin.

“We have a bad news,” said GaranteX. “We are fighting and won’t give up! Remember that all in Russian wallets are currently under threat.”