US DoJ charges operators of Blender.io and Sinbad.io cryptocurrency mixers with ML, alleging they facilitated laundering of proceeds from ransomware and wire fraud

A federal grand jury in Georgia indicted three Russian nationals—Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, and Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov—for operating cryptocurrency mixers Blender.io and Sinbad.io, which were used to launder criminal proceeds, including ransomware and virtual currency thefts. Ostapenko and Oleynik were arrested…