Iurii Gugnin was charged by the DOJ, which accused him of a $500 million money-laundering scheme that involved payments to Russian-bank-linked clients.

Prosecutors allege $530 million moved into the U.S. banking system, including from sanctioned Russian banks.

Iurii Gugnin, a 38-year-old Russian national living in Manhattan, was arrested and arraigned Monday and ordered held without bail pending trial.

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Prosecutors say Iurii Gugnin used stablecoin transactions and falsified documents to mask funds tied to sanctioned Russian institutions. He allegedly doctored over 80 invoices, lied to banks and ...

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A 22-count indictment charges the founder of a cryptocurrency payment company with multiple federal crimes. Iurii Gugnin, also known as Iurii Mashukov and George Goognin, is accused of evading U.S.

The Russian national used his crypto company, Evita, to funnel $530 million of overseas payments via US banks and crypto platforms, the DOJ release noted. Further, the accused moved the money to aid ...

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