The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two Russian citizens with providing services to cybercriminals for money laundering of more than $1.5 billion. The actions of Sergei Ivanov, using the pseudonym Taleon, and Timur Shakhmametov (JokerStash and Vega), according to the report. department, are related to bank fraud and the facilitation of websites that sell stolen credit card information and personal information.
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Ivanov is accused of laundering more than $1.15 billion in cryptocurrency through the services UAPS, PinPays and PM2BTC, writes BleepingComputer, and Shakhmametov allegedly ran one of the largest card marketplaces, Joker’s Stash, which generated profits of up to $1 billion. dollars.
The US Department of Justice claims that between July 2013 and August 2024, approximately 32% of all Bitcoin transactions on Ivanov’s platforms were associated with criminal activity. And Joker’s Stash had connections to the Cryptex exchange, which earlier this week the US Treasury
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