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Cryptocurrency Website Founder Arrested in Lisbon for Laundering Fortunes
The suspect is an American and founder of Samourai Wallet.
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The founder of Samourai Wallet, a website used to launder money from criminal sources, was arrested in Greater Lisbon, the Judiciary Police (PJ) revealed in a statement sent to Notícias ao Minuto, this Friday.
According to the inspectors, the Samourai operation was coordinated by the North American authorities and involved the participation of the PJ.
The detainee, an American citizen with an extradition request, administrator of a cryptocurrency wallet, is the main suspect in a large-scale network used for money laundering, which provided several services to its clients with the intention of laundering income from illicit activities.
Since the beginning of the investigation, elements have been collected and shared that relate the administrators of the 'Samourai' cryptocurrency wallet with money laundering activities.
Of these services, according to the PJ, the 'Whirlpool' stands out, a cryptocurrency mixing service that involves potentially identifiable or "contaminated" funds with others, in order to erase the trail and make it impossible to identify the origin, as well as its freezing by the authorities.
According to the authorities, more than a billion dollars in bitcoins and more than 680 million dollars in BTC were moved, used in 'Ricochet' transactions, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, which is dedicated to developing exclusive solutions that allow users to invest their cryptographic assets in real time.
Part of the operation, as Jornal de Notícias (JN) had already reported, was developed in national territory, by the National Unit to Combat Cybercrime and Technological Crime of the PJ and had the collaboration of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS-CI) of the USA.
The authorities thus carried out several house searches that led to the seizure of material goods of high monetary value and a collection of databases that will allow the full scope of the facts and the complete incrimination of the perpetrators to be determined.
When brought before the judicial authority for the first interrogation, the detainee was remanded in custody while awaiting the extradition process.
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