ChipMixer, a cryptocurrency mixing platform accused of laundering $3 billion in Bitcoin for ransomware gangs, drug traffickers and other criminals, may wind up giving investigators as many leads as it concealed following its takedown by U.S. and EU authorities, analysts told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. The U.S. Justice Department and Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, disclosed Wednesday that U.S. and German investigators seized four of ChipMixer's computer servers in undisclosed locations containing 7 terabytes of data, as well as $46 million in cryptocurrency, shutting down a platform that had been operating since August 2017. A day earlier, prosecutors in the Eastern...
German and U.S. authorities on Wednesday took down ChipMixer, an unlicensed cryptocurrency mixing platform suspected of laundering almost €3 billion of Bitcoin for crime syndicates across the globe since 2017.
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