The European Police Service (Europol) confiscated $46 million worth of BTC while shutting down Bitcoin mixer ChipMixer, which it claims was money laundering $3.8 billion.
Europol March 15 In the press release published on its official website on 3.8 billion worth a dollar 152 thousand BTC reported that ChipMixer, which was allegedly acquitted, was terminated. Belonging to Bitcoin mixer control of four servers, 7 terabytes (tb) data And 46 million dollar worth 1909.4 BTC captured passed.
According to the transmitted information 2017 established at the beginning of unlicensed One Bitcoin mixer serving as ChipMixerto both open network as well as dark web was accessible via to users full One anonymity Promising ChipMixer, ransomware companies Zeppelin, SunCrypt, Mamba, Dharma And Lockbit extensively, including crime It was used by actors who wanted to make it difficult to track the revenues from their activities.
US Department of Justice (DOJ) In his statement on the subject, he said that the Bitcoin mixer has so far North Korean obtained from crypto by hackers 700 million dollarsone of the largest illegal marketplaces in the USA Hydra Market owned by customers 60 million dollars And from credit card theft earned 35 million laundering dollars worth of Bitcoin and assets from many other similar activities. makes it difficult to follow stated.
Operation led by Europol Belgium, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the USA of states law enforcement And intelligence units were included.