{"id":18752,"date":"2024-04-25T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/blog\/?p=18752"},"modified":"2024-04-25T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:21:43","slug":"samourai-wallet-charged-with-money-laundering-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/samourai-wallet-charged-with-money-laundering-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Samourai Wallet Charged with Money Laundering Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday (Wednesday), Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the founders of Samourai Wallet<\/strong>, were charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to commit money laundering<\/a>, which is a part of the US government campaign against cyber mixing tools that are used by criminal organizations and foreign states to conceal financial operations.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez and Hill were also suspected of having created, sold, and administered the mixer, through which they had laundered more than $100 million from illegal dark web markets, a press release from Wednesday says. The statement alleges that Samourai Wallet<\/strong> facilitated $2 billion worth of \u201cillegal transactions\u201d from 2015 to date.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Rodriguez and Hill reportedly received $4.5 million as mixing fees, where different features required different pool fees. Laundering money and the unlicensed operation of a money-transmitting business conspiracy carry a maximum penalty of 20 years and five years imprisonment, respectively.<\/p>\n

Hill, Samourai Wallet’s<\/strong> CTO, was arrested in Portugal and will be brought to the US, while Rodriguez was apprehended Wednesday morning and will be charged in Pennsylvania either today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Seized Website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Authorities have seized the Icelandic-based Samourai Wallet website<\/a> and its Google Play Store app. After the indictment of the developers, a warning from US officials appears on the homepage of the website.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Justice\u2019s news release<\/a>, Rodriguez and Hill have been working on Samourai Wallet<\/strong> since 2015, encouraging users to launder proceeds of crime through the mixer on social media and in private discussions. More than 100,000 people downloaded the mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday (Wednesday), Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the founders of Samourai Wallet, were charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to commit money laundering, which is a part of the US government campaign against cyber mixing tools that are used by criminal organizations and foreign states to conceal financial operations. 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