{"id":21988,"date":"2025-03-12T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/alleged-garantex-administrator-arrested-in-india\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:06:32","slug":"alleged-garantex-administrator-arrested-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/alleged-garantex-administrator-arrested-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Garantex Administrator Arrested in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian authorities, at the request of the United States, have arrested Alexey Beschekov, the alleged co-founder and technical administrator of the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2025\/03\/alleged-co-founder-of-garantex-arrested-in-india\/\">reported<\/a> by journalist Brian Krebs.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources close to the investigation, the 46-year-old Lithuanian citizen was detained while on a family vacation on the Varkala coast. He is set to appear before a Delhi court on March 14 to face charges.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXefJjIWGM2PBirkECbcJZb8oguq2g7GsEqSI6BKVrWvGPHT4xZcIe0vRlRCF1n4I0iYfyilewbSNeAuvWIc0lYMm_1bN2Or-oZ5VU7vDAgfaioPDVcSEe0mFAdl-7hopYplDCZEiA?key=QuGEz-3idxH-zCfrwqLT9frL\" alt=\"\u041f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0430\u0433\u0430\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0430\u0434\u043c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 Garantex \u0437\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0436\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u0418\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0438\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alexey Beschekov. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/investigations\/mostwanted\/besciokov\">U.S. Secret Service<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the United States, Beschekov is accused of money laundering, conspiracy to violate sanctions, and conducting business without a license. The charges could result in a sentence of up to 45 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In early March, Tether <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/garantex-halts-operations-following-usdt-wallet-freeze\">blocked<\/a> Garantex wallets containing assets worth more than 2.5 billion rubles. The platform temporarily ceased operations.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-justice-department-reports-on-garantex-domain-seizure\">confirmed<\/a> the seizure of the exchange&#8217;s domains and the freezing of $26 million in its accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the platform&#8217;s team announced their intention to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/garantex-pledges-to-compensate-clients-for-frozen-crypto-assets\">reimburse<\/a> clients&#8217; crypto assets and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/garantex-exchange-addresses-tether-asset-freeze\">invited<\/a> them to their Moscow office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian authorities, at the request of the United States, have arrested Alexey Beschekov, the alleged co-founder and technical administrator of the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. This was reported by journalist Brian Krebs. According to sources close to the investigation, the 46-year-old Lithuanian citizen was detained while on a family vacation on the Varkala coast. He is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,1154,1470,278],"class_list":["post-21988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-crimes","tag-garantex","tag-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}