Garantex reportedly tied to violent Russian debt gang and KGB successor
Sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex has ties to violent debt collectors, a convicted gang leader, and a Russian state oil company, according to an international body of journalists. Estonian newspaper The Eesti Ekspress and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) discovered that the death and replacement of one of Garantex ’s shareholders precipitated the installation of a new shareholder with links to the Kremlin and Russia n state oil. The probe, published last week, also found that operators of Garantex’s Russia app and crypto educational arm jointly own a debt collection agency alongside a convicted gang leader guilty of violent extortion schemes. Russian founder of sanctioned exchange Garantex starts Tether desk Read more: US sanctions Russia n woman for laundering oligarch funds with crypto In addition, Garantex reportedly sent $238 million worth of bitcoin to wallets controlled by illegal darknet operators and $15 million worth of crypto to w...