{"id":16438,"date":"2025-06-09T23:51:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=16438"},"modified":"2025-06-09T23:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:51:55","slug":"us-accuses-russian-of-using-crypto-group-to-acquire-sensitive-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=16438","title":{"rendered":"US accuses Russian of using crypto group to acquire sensitive technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>US prosecutors have charged a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with sanctions evasion and export control violations, alleging he laundered more than $500mn and helped Russians acquire sensitive US technology.<\/p>\n<p>Iurii Gugnin, founder of crypto payments company Evita, was charged on Monday with wire and bank fraud, money laundering and other offences, according to court documents unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn. He was arrested and arraigned in New York, the Department of Justice said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Gugnin used his crypto payments company to make payments on behalf of foreign customers for sensitive US electronics, including an American designed server that was subject to export controls, and also laundered funds to purchase parts for Rosatom, Russia\u2019s state-owned nuclear technology company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGugnin came to the United States and set up a money-laundering operation under the guise of a cryptocurrency start-up, which he then used to evade sanctions and export controls and defraud US financial institutions,\u201d US attorney Joseph Nocella said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to a New York judge on Monday, prosecutors said Gugnin had \u201cconnections with government officials in Russia and Iran who could help facilitate his flight from prosecution, including members of Russia\u2019s intelligence services\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Gugnin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8c2a251b-64e8-48ba-a000-356486490ecf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free US prosecutors have charged a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with sanctions evasion and export control violations, alleging he laundered more than $500mn and helped Russians acquire sensitive US technology. Iurii Gugnin, founder of crypto payments company Evita, was charged on Monday with wire and bank fraud, money laundering and other offences,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[3914,1964,58,1180,3364,5468,1663],"class_list":{"0":"post-16438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial-crime","8":"tag-accuses","9":"tag-acquire","10":"tag-crypto","11":"tag-group","12":"tag-russian","13":"tag-sensitive","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}