The U.S. Treasury Department’s enforcement oversight agency to facilitate the supply of illegal and synthetic drugs to the United States cryptocurrency He added three people to his blacklist for allegedly using them.
US Treasury Department Sanctions Cryptocurrency Addresses Allegedly Used in Drug Trade
Dutch nationals Alex Adrianus Martinus Peijnenburg and Martinus Pterus Henri De Koning and British national Matthew Simon Grimm are more than 50 years old, the Treasury Foreign Asset Control Office said in a press release Wednesday. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) announced that he added it to the sanctions list with his address.
Three people are accused of supplying drugs in the US, including fentanyl, stimulants, cannabinoids and opioids.
OFAC claimed that the three people were selling the drugs through darknet marketplaces and other internet shops. The agency overseeing the sanctions also blacklisted a number of businesses associated with the trio, forbidding Americans from doing anything with the trio.
“The Treasury Department will continue to use its anti-narcotics powers to thwart those involved in the fentanyl global supply chain,” Brian Nelson, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, said in a press release.
More than 30 of the addresses belong to Grimm and the rest to Peijnenburg.
Nelson continued his statements on the subject as follows:
“As the Treasury takes further action against the abuse of virtual currencies, it has identified more than 50 virtual wallet addresses associated with this network’s drug trafficking activities. I want to thank our partners in the Netherlands and the UK, and US law enforcement for their partnership and making today’s action possible.”
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