三名俄罗斯公民因经营受制裁的加密货币混合服务而被指控洗钱

罗曼·维塔利耶维奇·奥斯塔彭科和亚历山大·叶夫根尼耶维奇·奥莱尼克上个月被捕，他们面临洗钱指控。

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.

美国司法部周五宣布，三名俄罗斯公民因运营受制裁的加密货币混合服务 Blender.io 和 Sinbad.io 而被指控洗钱。

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.

据美国司法部称，罗曼·维塔利耶维奇·奥斯塔彭科 (Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko) 和亚历山大·叶夫根尼耶维奇·奥莱尼克 (Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik) 上个月被捕，面临洗钱指控，而与该服务有关的第三人安东·维亚赫拉沃维奇·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.

多个司法管辖区的当局此前扣押并拆除了这些服务背后的计算机设备。 Blender.io 因帮助隐瞒朝鲜黑客网络盗窃的加密货币收益而受到美国财政部的制裁。此举标志着财政部首次对加密货币混合器实施制裁，该服务旨在匿名化交易并消除数字资产的公共踪迹。

“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.”

“根据起诉书，被告经营加密货币‘混合器’，作为洗钱犯罪所得资金的避风港，包括勒索软件和电汇欺诈的收益，”负责司法部刑事案件的首席副助理司法部长布伦特·S·怀布尔 (Brent S. Wible) 说。部门在一份声明中表示。 “通过涉嫌操作这些混合器，被告使国家支持的黑客组织和其他网络犯罪分子更容易从危害公共安全和国家安全的犯罪行为中获利。”

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.

对加密货币混合服务的起诉一直是美国政策制定者和国会议员争论的焦点。加密货币混合服务是一项有争议的业务，既代表了该行业容易被犯罪分子利用，又代表了该行业对金融隐私的拥护。

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，联邦上诉法院于 11 月推翻了财政部对加密货币混合器 Tornado Cash 的制裁，该法院裁定支撑此类服务的技术不能以这种方式成为目标。但政府仍在对 Tornado Cash 的创始人提起刑事诉讼。

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 从 2018 年运营到 2022 年，之后被当局取缔，并很快被 Sinbad.io 取代，后者也受到了财政部的类似制裁。