The U.S. Department of Justice accused a Russian citizen of transferring over $530 million into the United States through an encryption payment company.

Gate News bot message, the U.S. Department of Justice has officially released an indictment against New York resident Iurii Gugnin (also known as Iurii Mashukov and George Goognin). According to the indictment, Gugnin transferred over $530 million (primarily in USDT) from abroad into the U.S. financial system through his cryptocurrency payment company Evita between June 2023 and January 2025.

The indictment lists 22 charges, including fraud against banks and encryption exchanges, violation of sanctions and export controls, money laundering, failure to submit suspicious transaction reports in accordance with the Bank Secrecy Act, and false declarations of remittance business information.

If the bank fraud charge is established, the maximum sentence for each count is 30 years in prison.

Source: Wu Says

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Last edited on 2025-06-10 04:07:15
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