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Sinbad was used by North Korean cyber criminals to launder hundreds of millions stolen from some of crypto’s biggest hacks like Ronin Bridge and Atomic Wallet, said the Treasury. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against Sinbad, a cryptocurrency mixing service allegedly leveraged
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Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, designated two Bitcoin addresses and two email addresses tied to Sinbad, banning all U.S. persons and anyone who transacts with the global financial system from interacting with the addresses in future. Source
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While the sum involved in this sanction violation might appear insignificant, it highlights the industry’s ongoing struggle to prevent breaches following global geopolitical events. British financial technology giant Wise Plc (LON: WISE) has found itself entangled in controversy after unintentionally allowing an individual on the Russian sanctions list to withdraw money.
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At least two major crypto exchanges followed Binance in excluding Russian banks under international financial sanctions from their payment options. Tinkoff Bank and Sberbank are no longer available on the list of P2P transactions on ByBit and OKX. According to Russian media, local users can no longer receive fiat money in
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Last year, crypto exchange Binance claimed that it no longer allowed customers to pay each other through sanctioned Russian banks. In reality, that wasn’t the case. The company’s crypto exchange’s peer-to-peer (P2P) service no longer recommends five
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Crypto exchange Binance has removed “yellow” and “green” payment options from its peer-to-peer (P2P) service after being criticized for using these code words to represent sanctioned Russian banks, Cointelegraph confirmed on Aug. 25.Payment method searches for color-themed code words result in no hits. Source: BinanceBinance’s peer-to-peer exchange service is a
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“When gaps are pointed out to us, we seek to address and remediate them as soon as possible. In line with our ongoing commitments, payment methods on the Binance P2P platform that do not fit with our compliance policies are not available on our platform," a Binance spokesperson told CryptoX. Source
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The United States Treasury has announced deputies of the multilateral Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs, or REPO, Task Force have targeted crypto in Russian entities’ attempts to evade sanctions.In a March 9 announcement, the U.S. Treasury said the task force had blocked or frozen more than $58 billion worth of
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After Sinbad was launched, most of incoming transactions would come from a wallet linked to Blender.io, and Sinbad operators rewarded promoters of the new mixer also from a wallet related to Blender. The two mixers had similar patterns of work, Elliptic said, and both have Russian-speaking websites and tech support
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