DOJ shuts down ChipMixer over $3B of cryptocurrency money laundering
The U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) introduced on March 15 that it has shut down the darknet cryptocurrency mixing service ChipMixer.
The company stated that the platform has been used to launder greater than $3 billion of cryptocurrency between 2017 and 2023. It added that the platform has been utilized in ransomware, fraud, darknet actions, hacking, and crypto heists.
Legislation enforcement within the U.S. seized two internet domains that directed guests to ChipMixer in addition to one GitHub account that hosted the undertaking. Police in Germany moreover seized the undertaking’s back-end servers and $46 million price of cryptocurrency.
One particular person — Vietnam resident Minh Quốc Nguyễn — has been charged with cash laundering, id theft, and the operation of an unlicensed cash transmitting enterprise in connection to the case. These expenses have been made in Philadelphia.
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