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Three senior Russian officials, including the finance minister, joined A7's board two weeks after OFAC's criminal designation, Cryptopolitan reports. The seats confirm a state link A7 already had, so open exposure sits with the intermediaries around it.
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Qurium says Aeza International and NetCrafters together originate 536 IPv4 prefixes, up from 25 at the end of 2022. It argues that operators should follow ASNs and prefixes, because the company names around them changed through two rounds of OFAC sanctions.
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Regulators penalized Bank of America more than $1.21 billion for AML and sanctions failures, and no executive faced criminal charges. Crypto voices led by Binance's Changpeng Zhao say banks and crypto firms are treated differently.
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Treasury fined Bank of America $1.2 billion over anti-money laundering and sanctions failures, the third-largest penalty in its history. The bank says it has invested billions in compliance. The case tests how far spending alone protects a large bank.
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Russia's A7 will settle foreign invoices in USDT for a flat 0.3% fee, with recipients paid by SWIFT, 11 days after US sanctions on its network. It is aimed at businesses in international trade, the segment where US authorities say the network moved restricted payments.
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Trump ruled out US strikes on Iran before the November 3 midterms and kept the naval blockade in force. Brent still traded near $103 a barrel on Friday, and a pledge that lapses on election day returns no Iranian oil to the market.
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OFAC's Sept. 17 action covers the Tehran exchange, its developer Pishtaz Simorgh and three Dot One executives, over hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin that Treasury says moved to the IRGC in June and July.
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Scott Bessent said the US could seize up to $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto this week, nearly twice the $550 million Tether says it helped freeze this year. How much work falls on issuers and exchanges depends on whether that figure is new money or USDT already frozen at blocked addresses.
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Britain sanctioned three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms on Oct. 8, two of them suspected of handling transactions for Russia's A7 network. Washington blocked A7 a week earlier and Brussels barred dealings with 14 crypto platforms in July, so firms near these rails now answer to three overlapping regimes.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal's staff found that 84% of 846 sanctioned, terror-linked wallets relied heavily on Tether's USDT. He wants Treasury and Justice to examine Tether's sanctions and money-laundering controls, though neither agency has yet announced an inquiry.
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Japan froze the assets of Garantex, a Moscow crypto exchange that processed at least $96 billion, in Russia sanctions that took effect on October 2. Any exchange or payment firm that touches Garantex now carries Japanese legal risk on top of its US and EU exposure.
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US Senate investigators have named tether a key source of liquidity for Iran's shadow banking network in a new subcommittee report. A Septten lawyer says Gulf merchants paid in local currency stay exposed, though licensed exchanges carry most of the screening work.
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Senate Democratic staff found 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets moved almost only in Tether's USDT. Most came from Israel's list, and any penalty rests with a Treasury and Justice Department that Senator Blumenthal says have enforced nothing.
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US authorities arrested Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, alleged developer of Ploutus ATM malware, over $5.4 million stolen in 117 jackpottings. Prosecutors say jackpotting earned money for Tren de Aragua and hit ATMs in 47 states.
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OFAC sanctioned two French charities and three individuals on Oct. 2, alleging hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto went to a Hamas commander in Gaza. Exchanges and payment firms under US rules must now screen for the five and block any of their assets that reach them.
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Treasury's OFAC sanctioned 10 people over Ploutus ATM jackpotting, a scheme US officials tie to at least 1,500 attacks and $40.7 million in losses. Treasury calls the thefts a key revenue source for the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua.
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OFAC designated A7, a Russia-linked payments network that reportedly settled over $86 billion in its first year, a transnational criminal organization. FinCEN's same-day proposal to bar transfers through A7's sub-agents gives banks and crypto firms a new screening job aimed at intermediaries.
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Suspected North Korean hackers have moved $3.8 million of Bitget's $387.5 million into Zcash's shielded pool, about 1% of the haul. About $24 million of stolen ZEC remains in transparent addresses that exchanges and police can still freeze.
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Korea won a unanimous ruling rejecting the Dayyani family's 770 billion won claim that it paid a 2018 arbitration award too slowly. Its reasoning limits follow-on cases about award payments while leaving claims over a state's original conduct untouched.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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