Samourai Wallet CEO Keone Rodriguez and CTO William Hill were arrested on April 24. Rodriguez was arrested in Pennsylvania, and Hill was in Portugal. They are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a 20-year prison sentence, and conspiracy to operate an illegal money transfer business, which carries an additional 5 years in prison.
Also, American law enforcement agencies confiscated Samourai Wallet servers in Iceland, closed the service's website, and Google was issued a warrant to stop publishing the application in the Google Play Store. The app has been downloaded more than 100,000 times.
“With the help of the service, users carried out illegal transactions amounting to more than $2 billion, and the creators of Samourai Wallet facilitated money laundering transactions amounting to more than $100 million from illegal darknet markets such as Silk Road and Hydra from hackers and extortionists,” the American statement emphasizes. prosecutor's office.
It should be noted that the US authorities declared cryptomixers as centers for money laundering last year.
Source: Bits
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