#garantex — Public Fediverse posts

"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."

(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager and Justin Sun is now the Trump family's business partner in #WorldLibertyFinancial)

* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD

#moneylaundering #crime #corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #iran #russia #uspol #howardLutnick #economist #economics #finance #uk #ukpol #garantex #threatintel #ransomware #cybersecurity #vladimirputin #oligarchs #putin #ukraine #kinahans #kinahan

@briankrebs i see Garantex (the favored #Moscow based #crypto exchange for ransomware gangs looking to cash out) and #Bitzlato (obscure exchange used by darknet market Hydra to launder money that was seized by the US govt early 2023) in the #FinCen order: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/federal_register_notices/2024-09-26/PM2BTC-Order-508.pdf

(unsurprising but worth noting)

WSJ on #Garantex: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/garantex-russian-crypto-hamas-crime-sanctions-a3648357

Crypto’s Role in Terrorism Financing Overestimated, Chainalysis Shows - Inaccurate methodologies have resulted in overstated metrics about the use of cryp... - https://news.bitcoin.com/cryptos-role-in-terrorism-financing-overestimated-chainalysis-shows/ #terrorismfinancing #cryptocurrencies #cryptotransfers #terroristgroups #cryptocurrency #islamicjihad #chainalysis #cryptofunds #blockchain #hezbollah #sanctions #garantex #buycash #wallets #crypto #israel #hamas #news #gaza