{"id":78661,"date":"2023-05-12T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=78661"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:34:31","slug":"ukraine-chainalysis-and-the-united-states-begin-tracking-russians-sanctions-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukraine-chainalysis-and-the-united-states-begin-tracking-russians-sanctions-evasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, Chainalysis and the United States begin tracking Russians&#8217; sanctions evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service&#8217;s Criminal Investigation division (IRS-CI) announced cooperation with Ukrainian law enforcement and the analytics firm Chainalysis to track Russians evading sanctions using cryptocurrencies. Bloomberg reported this.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, information sharing between the United States and Ukraine enables more thorough identification of cases of concealment of digital assets by the Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS sponsors Ukrainian investigators\u2019 access to the Chainalysis tool, which helps analyse cryptocurrency transactions. It also offers online and offline training sessions for law enforcement to improve blockchain-analysis skills.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that the U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s National Security Division began <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bloomberg-u-s-doj-investigates-binance-over-sanctions-violations-tied-to-russia\">investigation<\/a> into the parent company Binance Holdings Ltd. regarding possible sanctions violations against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. IRS, together with Ukrainian law enforcement and Chainalysis, has begun tracking Russians evading sanctions using cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[274,27,686,16,26],"class_list":["post-78661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-chainalysis","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661","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=78661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78663,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661\/revisions\/78663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}