三名俄羅斯公民因經營受制裁的加密貨幣混合服務而被指控洗錢

羅曼·維塔利耶維奇·奧斯塔彭科和亞歷山大·葉夫根尼耶維奇·奧萊尼克上個月被捕，他們面臨洗錢指控。

Three Russian nationals have been charged with money laundering for operating sanctioned crypto mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

美國司法部週五宣布，三名俄羅斯公民因經營受制裁的加密貨幣混合服務 Blender.io 和 Sinbad.io 而被指控洗錢。

Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko and Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik were arrested last month and face money laundering charges, while a third person linked to the services, Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov, remains at large, according to the DOJ.

據美國司法部稱，羅曼·維塔利耶維奇·奧斯塔彭科(Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko) 和亞歷山大·葉夫根尼耶維奇·奧萊尼克(Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik) 上個月被捕，面臨洗錢指控，而與該服務有關的第三人安東·維亞赫拉沃維奇·塔拉索夫(Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov) 仍然在逃。

Authorities from multiple jurisdictions previously seized and dismantled the computer equipment behind the services. Blender.io was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for helping conceal the crypto proceeds of cyber thefts conducted by North Korean hackers. The move marked the Treasury's first sanctions against a crypto mixer, a service that aims to anonymize transactions and erase the public trail of digital assets.

多個司法管轄區的當局先前扣押並拆除了這些服務背後的電腦設備。 Blender.io 因協助隱瞞北韓駭客網路竊盜的加密貨幣收益而受到美國財政部的製裁。此舉標誌著財政部首次對加密貨幣混合器實施制裁，該服務旨在匿名化交易並消除數位資產的公共痕跡。

“According to the indictment, the defendants operated cryptocurrency ‘mixers’ that served as safe havens for laundering criminally derived funds, including the proceeds of ransomware and wire fraud,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brent S. Wible, who leads the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a statement. “By allegedly operating these mixers, the defendants made it easier for state-sponsored hacking groups and other cybercriminals to profit from offenses that jeopardized both public safety and national security.”

「根據起訴書，被告經營加密貨幣『混合器』，作為洗錢犯罪所得資金的避風港，包括勒索軟體和電匯欺詐的收益，」負責司法部刑事案件的首席副助理司法部長布倫特·S·懷布爾(Brent S. Wible) 說。 “透過涉嫌操作這些混合器，被告使國家支持的駭客組織和其他網路犯罪分子更容易從危害公共安全和國家安全的犯罪行為中獲利。”

The prosecution of crypto mixing services—the controversial businesses that represent both the sector's vulnerability to criminal use and its championing of financial privacy—has been a point of contention for U.S. policymakers and members of Congress.

對加密貨幣混合服務的起訴一直是美國政策制定者和國會議員爭論的焦點。隱私的擁護。

In the most high-profile case, the Treasury's sanctions on the crypto mixer Tornado Cash were overturned in November by a federal appeals court, which ruled that the technology underpinning such services can't be targeted this way. But the government is still pursuing criminal prosecutions of Tornado Cash's founders.

在最引人注目的案件中，聯邦上訴法院於 11 月推翻了財政部對加密貨幣混合器 Tornado Cash 的製裁，該法院裁定支撐此類服務的技術不能以這種方式成為目標。但政府仍在對 Tornado Cash 的創始人提起刑事訴訟。

Blender.io operated from 2018 to 2022 before it was taken down by authorities, to be quickly replaced by Sinbad.io, which drew similar sanctions from the Treasury Department.

Blender.io 從 2018 年營運到 2022 年，之後被當局取締，並很快被 Sinbad.io 取代，後者也受到了財政部的類似制裁。