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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Fatima Hussein

Founders of crypto mixer arrested, sanctioned after US cracks down on Tornado Cash

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

U.S. government officials on Wednesday started cracking down on the co-founders of the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, just days after a federal judge decided that the government had the authority to sanction them.

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Roman Semenov, one of the three co-founders of Tornado Cash, for allegedly supporting the North Korean hacking organization, Lazarus Group, among other things.

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