After exploitation of withdrawal, Gassortex invites customers to the Moscow meeting “Face to Face”
It is not a good week for the exchange of Russian Crypto Garantex.
First of all, Thursday, Stablecoin transmitter Blocked access to GuaRotex portfolios This held around $ 28 million from Crypto Exchange funds. On the same day, an international operation of the police led by the American secret services Official guarantex websites have taken. At the time, Gassortex made no mention of this operation in its official telegram channels; Instead, the company announcement It was a question of “suspending all the services, including the withdrawals of cryptocurrency”.
Then, Friday, the United States Ministry of Justice announced accusations against two of the administrators of the exchangeAleksej Bisciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda, accusing the facilitation pair of money laundering on their platform in the name of cybercriminals and terrorists. American prosecutors also said that he had frozen more than $ 26 million in attachment and bitcoin that were used to facilitate money laundering, which explained what happened with the attachment wallets.
On Saturday, Guarantx offered a potential lifeline to its customers – with a socket.
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Without recognizing the actions of the police, Guarantex published an ad On her official telegram channel, saying that she “developed a solution for blocked assets” and invites customers with a positive account balance “to a personal meeting in our moscow office”, according to an automatic translation.
Garatex said He will start the “face-to-face meetings” in his office to date on Monday, and asks customers to arrive “with the phone to which the account is linked and with access to your email”, because the company “may need to send you confirmation codes”, said its ad.
The demand of the company is unusual, in a world that greatly appreciates anonymity as the world of crypto. Presenting itself at the offices of a company which was sanctioned by the two The US government And the European Union Laying difficult risks to predict for customers, despite the risk of the Russian government itself, and there is no guarantee at this stage that Garantex will be able to reimburse customers.
We do not know exactly how many guarantors A customers A, but the exchange has dealt with more than $ 96 billion in cryptocurrency transactions since 2019, according to the DoJ. Guarantx probably has a large number of customers, many of whom do not live near Moscow.
Guarantx did not respond to a comment request.
