The Russian Garantex encryption was seized by the law enforcement process

The American Secret Service, which works with an alliance of international law enforcement agencies, has been dropped and seized on GARANTEX, an exchange of a Russian encrypted currency accused of Darknet markets and ransoms.

On Thursday, the official GARANTEX website was replaced by a notice that the stock exchange field was seized by the Secret Service after a judicial order from the US Prosecutor’s Office for the Eastern Region in Virginia.

This is the latest measures taken by Western governments against exchange in Moscow.

Last month, the European Union made the GARANTEX that, that, Saying It is closely related to Russian banks approved by the European Union. “This was part of a set of sanctions against Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine.

In 2022, The US Treasury is punishedClaiming that more than $ 100 million in transactions on the stock exchange “are associated with illegal actors and DarkNet markets”, including the reputable Russian ransom gang, and Darknet Market Hydra.

The removal notification, which was seen by Techcrunch, said that the operation was conducted in coordination with the US Department of Justice, the Federal Investigation Office, Europol, the Dutch National Police, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Pundeskriminalamt or BKA, and the Frankfurt Police General Office.

Techcrunch has access to all these organizations to comment. At the time of writing this report, only the FBI responded, and he refused to comment.

Techcrunch also communicates to GARANTEX with official email addresses on the site before Nubia, as well as through the company’s TeleGram account. GARANTEX did not respond to these messages.

TECHRUNCH checks the site’s tunnel notification by analyzing the field records facing the GARANTEX internet. As of Thursday, the GARANTEX website now refers to the servers known to be controlled by the Secret Service. The server himself also hosts many other website notifications implemented by the secret service in recent years.

After Nubia, GARANTEX did not mention the law enforcement process on official telegram channels. On Thursday morning, Garantex Declare The “suspension of all services, including cryptocurrency withdrawals,” was according to an advertising mechanism.

The decision came after StableCoin Tether was frozen of $ 28 million from the encrypted currency on Garantex.

“We have bad news,” GARANTEX Books. “We are fighting and will not surrender! Please note that all (rope) in Russian portfolios are currently threatened.”