印度的官員逮捕了據稱Garantex創始人Alekseješciokov

印度中央調查局（CBI）的官員宣布逮捕了立陶宛國家Alekseješciokov，據稱他已經經營著加密貨幣交易所Garantex。

Officials with India’s Central Bureau of Investigation have announced the arrest of Lithuanian national Aleksej Bešciokov, who was alleged to have operated the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex.

印度中央調查局的官員宣布逮捕了立陶宛國家Alekseješciokov，據稱他已經經營了加密貨幣交易所Garantex。

According to a March 12 notice, CBI police in the Indian state of Kerala coordinated with national authorities to arrest Bešciokov, who was vacationing in the country with his family and planning to leave India. The arrest follows US charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

根據3月12日的通知，印度喀拉拉邦的CBI警察與國家當局協調逮捕了Bešciokov，後者與家人一起在該國度假，併計劃離開印度。這次逮捕是在美國串謀進行洗錢的指控之後，陰謀經營無牌貨幣傳遞業務以及串謀違反《國際急診經濟大國法》。

Aleksej Bešciokov’s “most wanted” page. Source: US Secret Service

AleksejBešciokov的“最想要的”頁面。資料來源：美國特勤局

As stated in an indictment filed on February 27 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Bešciokov, Aleksandr Mira Serda and others operated Garantex to "launder the proceeds of criminal activity, including ransomware, computer hacking, narcotics transactions, and sanctions violations, and profited from the laundering" between 2019 to the present. Bešciokov is expected to be transferred to US custody in accordance with India’s Extradition Act of 1962.

正如2月27日在美國弗吉尼亞州東部地區的一項起訴書中所述，Bešciokov，Aleksandr Mira Serda等人經營Garantex，以“洗錢犯罪活動的收益，包括勒索軟件，計算機黑客，麻醉品交易以及違反違規的犯罪活動，並在2019年違反了2019年的侵犯和宣傳。預計Bešciokov將根據1962年的印度引渡法案將其轉移到美國拘留所。

The alleged Garantex founder’s arrest follows Tether freezing $27 million in USDt (USDT) on the platform. Garantex announced on March 6 that it had temporarily suspended all services, including withdrawals. US authorities also seized three website domain names “used to support Garantex's operations” as part of a judge’s order in the criminal case.

所謂的Garantex創始人被捕之後，在平台上凍結了2700萬美元的USDT（USDT）。 Garantex於3月6日宣布，它已暫時暫停所有服務，包括提款。美國當局還扣押了三個網站域名“用於支持Garantex的行動”，作為刑事案件中法官命令的一部分。

Related: US sanctions crypto addresses linked to Nemesis darknet marketplace

相關：美國製裁加密地址與Nemesis Darknet市場相關的地址

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added Garantex to its list of sanctioned entities in April 2022 for "willfully disregard[ing] Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations and allow[ing] their systems to be abused by illicit actors." The European Union also imposed sanctions against the platform in February as part of sanctions on “Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.”

美國財政部外國資產控制辦公室在2022年4月將GARANTEX添加到其批准的實體列表中，以“故意無視反貨幣洗錢並反對恐怖主義（AML/CFT）義務的融資，並允許其係統被非法的演員濫用。”歐盟還於2月對該平台實施了製裁，這是對“俄羅斯對烏克蘭的侵略戰爭”的製裁的一部分。

Serda, a Russian national and Garantex’s co-founder and chief commercial officer, is still at large at the time of Bešciokov’s arrest.

Serda是俄羅斯國家和Garantex的聯合創始人兼首席商務官，在Bešciokok被捕時仍處於整個狀態。

A Garantex spokesperson declined to comment.

Garantex發言人拒絕置評。

It’s unclear what legal recourse Bešciokov could have in fighting US extradition from India should he choose to do so. Lawyers for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who was arrested in Montenegro on March 1, 2023 on unrelated charges, repeatedly appealed court decisions regarding US extradition before he was finally handed over to officials in December 2024.

目前尚不清楚貝斯科科夫（Bešciokov）在與印度的引渡作鬥爭時可能會有什麼法律追索權，如果他選擇這樣做。 Terraform Labs聯合創始人Do Kwon的律師Do Kwon於2023年3月1日因無關指控在黑山被捕，在2024年12月最終移交給官員之前，一再對美國引渡的法院裁決一再上訴。

Former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who was in the Bahamas when crypto exchange FTX collapsed in November 2022, was extradited from the island nation to the US to face charges. He was later convicted of seven felony counts and sentenced to 25 years in prison but filed an appeal.

前首席執行官山姆·班克曼（Sam Bankman）弗里德（Sam Bankman Fried）在巴哈馬（Bahamas），當時加密貨幣交易所在2022年11月倒閉時，他被從島國引渡到美國，面臨指控。後來，他被判犯有七項重罪罪名成立，並被判處25年徒刑，但提起上訴。