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ChipMixer, Wanted Vietnamese Founder Blocks Crypto Mixer in US and Europe

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The European Union Police Department (Europol) and the US Department of Justice have ordered the closure of transaction mixing support ChipMixer, confiscating the sum of $46 million in Bitcoin and charging the Vietnamese founder.

European Police Shut Down ‘Money Mixer’ ChipMixer, Seizing $46 Million in Bitcoin

According to Europol’s most recent announcement, ChipMixer’s internet site has been confiscated by US and German authorities above allegations of dollars laundering pursuits. The company seized four servers, 7TB of information and about one,909 BTC (equivalent to $46 million).

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Belgian, Polish and Swiss authorities also assisted in the investigation.

🚨 International 👮 have dismantled ChipMixer, a darkweb cryptocurrency mixer favored by organized crime.
💰 As a lot as forty million euros seized by the authorities in 🇩🇪 (@GStA_FFM_ZIT & @bka) AND (@FBI & @USDOJ_Intl). , 🇨🇭 and 🇵🇱 also supported.
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— Europol (@Europol) March 15, 2023

ChipMixer was launched in 2017 with the aim of delivering traders anonymity. The instrument purportedly wiped 152,000 BTC ($three.eight billion) of “dirty money” from dark internet markets, ransomware, trafficking in unlawful items, little one exploitation materials, and massive quantities of encrypted dollars.

Ransomware like Zeppelin, SunCrypt, Mamba, Dharma and Lockbit also use ChipMixer to take away dollars traces.

Notably, the US Justice Department has also accused the individual behind ChipMixer to be a Vietnamese nationwide named Nguyen Minh Quoc, 49, who lives in Hanoi. This individual is accused of dollars laundering, identity theft and unlawful currency transactions by means of ChipMixer.

Justice Department Investigation Leads to Takedown of Cryptocurrency Mixer Darknet That Processed Over $three Billion in Illegal Transactionshttps://t.co/rPzQh9fNTM

— Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) March 15, 2023

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also issued an arrest warrant for Nguyen Minh Quoc.

Minh Quoc Nguyen allegedly facilitated the laundering of all over $three billion well worth of Bitcoin. He is desired by #FBI on expenses of dollars laundering, working an unlicensed dollars transfer organization and identity theft: https://t.co/U0W3yjH9yY pic.twitter.com/RgsQJoRfi6

— FBI Most Wanted (@FBIMostWanted) March 15, 2023

In August 2022, The US Treasury Department has accepted a different common dollars mixing instrument, Tornado Cash, for the reason that it is believed that he “facilitated” the infamous North Korean criminal group – Lazarus Group – to launder a massive sum of dirty dollars. The Tornado Cash improvement staff was for that reason targeted by the authorities at the time developer Alexey Pertsev was arrested by Dutch authorities Together prison sentence until finally April 2023.

However, not long ago the Tornado Cash “successor” venture appeared Built by 1 of the unique developers, referred to as Privacy Pool, up to date with “transparency” capabilities for traders to keep away from government scrutiny.

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