印度的官员逮捕了据称Garantex创始人Alekseješciokov

印度中央调查局（CBI）的官员宣布逮捕了立陶宛国家Alekseješciokov，据称他已经经营着加密货币交易所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.

印度中央调查局的官员宣布逮捕了立陶宛国家Alekseješciokov，据称他已经经营了加密货币交易所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.

根据3月12日的通知，印度喀拉拉邦的CBI警察与国家当局协调逮捕了Bešciokov，后者与家人一起在该国度假，并计划离开印度。这次逮捕是在美国串谋进行洗钱的指控之后，阴谋经营无牌货币传递业务以及串谋违反《国际急诊经济大国法》。

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

AleksejBešciokov的“最想要的”页面。资料来源：美国特勤局

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日在美国弗吉尼亚州东部地区的一项起诉书中所述，Bešciokov，Aleksandr Mira Serda等人经营Garantex，以“洗钱犯罪活动的收益，包括勒索软件，计算机黑客，麻醉品交易以及违反违规的犯罪活动，并在2019年违反了2019年的侵犯和宣传。预计Bešciokov将根据1962年的印度引渡法案将其转移到美国拘留所。

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.

所谓的Garantex创始人被捕之后，在平台上冻结了2700万美元的USDT（USDT）。 Garantex于3月6日宣布，它已暂时暂停所有服务，包括提款。美国当局还扣押了三个网站域名“用于支持Garantex的行动”，作为刑事案件中法官命令的一部分。

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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.”

美国财政部外国资产控制办公室在2022年4月将GARANTEX添加到其批准的实体列表中，以“故意无视反货币洗钱并反对恐怖主义（AML/CFT）义务的融资，并允许其系统被非法的演员滥用。”欧盟还于2月对该平台实施了制裁，这是对“俄罗斯对乌克兰的侵略战争”的制裁的一部分。

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是俄罗斯国家和Garantex的联合创始人兼首席商务官，在Bešciokok被捕时仍处于整个状态。

A Garantex spokesperson declined to comment.

Garantex发言人拒绝置评。

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.

目前尚不清楚贝斯科科夫（Bešciokov）在与印度的引渡作斗争时可能会有什么法律追索权，如果他选择这样做。 Terraform Labs联合创始人Do Kwon的律师Do Kwon于2023年3月1日因无关指控在黑山被捕，在2024年12月最终移交给官员之前，一再对美国引渡的法院裁决一再上诉。

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.

前首席执行官山姆·班克曼（Sam Bankman）弗里德（Sam Bankman Fried）在巴哈马（Bahamas），当时加密货币交易所在2022年11月倒闭时，他被从岛国引渡到美国，面临指控。后来，他被判犯有七项重罪罪名成立，并被判处25年徒刑，但提起上诉。