The US government has removed Samourai Wallet, a cryptocurrency mixture that has carried out more than $ 2 billion in illegal transactions and was washed more than $ 100 million in criminal revenues.
In a press release of 24 April, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the web servers and the domain of Samourai were seized after a law enforcement operation in collaboration with the Iceland authorities.
Moreover, the Android app of the illegal cryptocurrency service from the Google Play Store in the US has been removed.
In addition to the Takedown, the DOJ revealed that the two co-founders of Samourai, CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Lonergan Hill, are accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to manage non-reimbursement.
The American lawyer Damian Williams noted: “As claimed, Rodriguez and Hill are responsible for the development, marketing and exploitation of Samourai, a cryptocurrency mixing service that has carried out more than $ 2 billion in illegal transactions and as a refuge for criminals to make long-term money.
“Rodriguez and Hill would knowingly and would like to make money laundering of more than $ 100 million in criminal yields from the Silk Road, Hydra Market and a large number of other campaigns for hacking and fraud.”
Rodriguez and Hill were arrested on 24 April in the US and Portugal respectively.
What the Samoura Public Lower Ponnee offered criminals
Samourai Wallet was a mobile-first cryptocurrency mixture that combined several functions to perform anonymous financial transactions.
The application, operational since 2015, has been downloaded more than 100,000 times.
After users had downloaded Samourai, they were able to store their private keys for all the Bitcoin addresses they have checked in the Samourai program.
These private keys were not shared with Samourai employees, but Samourai had a centralized server that, among other things, supervised and facilitated transactions between Samourai users and created new Bitcoin addresses used during the transactions.
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Samourai was used by customers around the world, including customers in the southern district of New York, where the indictment took place.
“While offering Samourai as a ‘privacy’ service, the defendants knew that it was a refuge for criminals to enter into large-scale money laundering of money and the disruption of money. Indeed, as the defendants were planning and knew well, a substantial part of the money that the criminal were the criminal were the criminele ramps were the criminal proceeds that were the criminal proceeds that were implemented for the purposes of the Doj.