ONS DOJ with a premium of up to $ 6 million for the absorbed Exchange Garrantex leaders

The authorities of the United States have revealed a huge reward for all information provided about the management members of the Garrantex Crypto Exchange.

After years of operation and to facilitate billions of transactions with cyber criminals, the now rebrande entity is under heavy fire.

Substantial reward

The Office of the spokesperson for the US Department of Foreign Affairs issued A statement yesterday and announced that this is the case Focused on the now-obsolete Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garanttex, which was reportedly used by various criminals who perform cyber crime and money laundering within his network.

The transnational organized Crime Rewards program (TOCRP) of the Department has drawn up two rewards, a total of $ 6 million, for all information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Garantex managers. This is divided between a maximum of $ 5 million for the Russian National Aleksandr Mira Serda, co-owner and CCO, and up to $ 1 million for other important leaders of the stock market.

OFAC, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, takes steps to re -design Garrantex and to indicate its successor, Grinex, that remains operational. This followed on the interference of Tether, where portfolios were associated with the exchange and seizing USDT assets earlier this year.

German and Finnish authorities who also helped by grabbing their domain and freezing more than $ 26 million in digital assets that are controlled by Garrantex. OFAC will also mention three managers of the fair and six affiliated companies in Russia and the Kyrgyz Republic.

According to reports from the FBI and US Secret Service, the fair processed at least $ 96 billion in crypto transactions between April 2019 and March 2025. It also received hundreds of millions of revenues from the criminals who used it to carry out a series of crimes, including terrorism, drug trafficking, ransom and others, often, which victims from the United States cause significant damage.

Well -known facts

Garrantex was founded at the end of 2019 and registered in Estonia. Most of his operations were performed from Moscow and St. Petersburg. In February 2022, it lost its license for the provision of digital assets services after Estonia’s Financial Intelligence Unit (EFIU) had unveiled serious shortcomings in his laws against money laundering and terrorist financing, while portfolios associated with criminal activities were discovered.

After the EFIU enforcement and the designation of OFAC, the exchange created an infrastructure that is designed to prevent settings from allowing accreditation portion addresses back to them, in an attempt to avoid sanctions. This allowed them to continue to provide services to various entities involved in criminal activities.

A well -known money laundering, Ekaterina Zhdanova, is said to have led more than $ 2 million in Bitcoin to the USDT Stablecoin using the Exchange. From November 2023, it is currently being chased on the basis of an executive order for performing financial activities or services in the largest country in the world.

In March 2025, the American doj’s charges against the CCO and Aleksej Besciokov, a well -known director. After this, the latter was arrested in India, while the first remains virtually.