cryptonews: In a coordinated operation, U.S. and Germany law enforcement shuttered the ChipMixer Bitcoin anonymizer — seizing $46 million in digital assets and indicting its alleged operator. 👀
Calling ChipMixer one of the "most widely used mixers to launder criminally derived funds," the DoJ suggested that it was more focused on criminal activities than other mixing services, which help anonymize cryptocurrency by mixing large groups of tokens together and then distributing them randomly to users.
That said, Nguyễn did use rhetoric common to the privacy-focused users of crypto mixers, who say the vast majority of users are not criminals. Speaking about the anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer requirements of banking laws around the globe, Nguyễn reportedly said:Since August 2017, ChipMixer "attracted a significant criminal clientele and became indispensable in obfuscating and laundering funds from multiple criminal schemes," the DoJ said. It pointed to North Korean hackers, Russian military intelligence and darknet sellers of drugs and other illicit products.
The DoJ cited the laundering of $17 million in ransomware funds, $35 million from "fraud shops" that sell hacked data and stolen credit cards, and $200 million from darknet market sellers, as well as its use by the Russian Army's GRU intelligence agency. Beyond that, it was used to launder $700 million in hacked funds "related to heists by North Korean cyber actors from Axie Infinity's
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