It was not a good week for Russia Crypto Exchange Garantex.
First, on Thursday, TETHER, an publisher of the STABLECOIN, has blocked access to the Garantex wallet, which has about $ 28 million in Crypto Exchange. On the same day, the international law execution operation led by the US secret service seized Garantex’s official website. At that time, Garantex did not mention this work on the official telegram channel. Instead, the company announced that it will stop all services, including withdrawal of cryptocurrency.
Then on Friday, the US Department of Justice announced the prosecution of the exchange manager Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda, blaming a pair of funds on behalf of cyber criminals and terrorists. The US prosecution also said that more than $ 26 million was frozen in tethers and Bitcoin used to promote money laundering.
As of Saturday, Garantex provided a potential lifeline to customers.
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Garantex did not recognize the law enforcement measures and announced that “developed a solution for blocked assets” to the official Telegram Channel and invited customers with a positive account balance to the individual meetings of the Moscow office.
Garatex will start a “face -to -face meeting” in the office as of Monday, and customers are asking for “access to the linked calls and emails.” The company announced, “I may have to send a confirmation code.”
The company’s request is rare in a world that highly appreciates anonymity, such as the world of password. Despite the risk of the Russian government itself, starring in the office of a company sanctioned by the US and the European Union, there is no guarantee that Garantex can refund customers at this point.
According to DOJ, it is exactly unclear how many customers are, but have been dealing with more than $ 96 billion in Cryptocurrency transactions since 2019. Garantex has many customers, and many of them do not live near Moscow.
Garantex did not respond to the request.
