Cybersecurity report

# US Treasury Sanctions Iranian National for Operating Darknet Market Nemesis

TRM Labs, March 3, 2025. The 3 March 2025 OFAC designation of Behrouz Parsarad as sole administrator of Nemesis, with 49 cryptocurrency addresses (44 Bitcoin, 5 Monero), and the 20 March 2024 US-German-Lithuanian server seizure that dismantled the marketplace - no successor market being identified..

**Source type:** Cybersecurity report

**Published:** March 3, 2025

**Research grade:** T2

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** TRM Labs

**Published:** March 3, 2025

**Source type:** Cybersecurity report

**Research grade:** Source grade T2

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/us-treasury-sanctions-iranian-national-for-operating-darknet-market-nemesis](https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/us-treasury-sanctions-iranian-national-for-operating-darknet-market-nemesis)

**What it supports:** The 3 March 2025 OFAC designation of Behrouz Parsarad as sole administrator of Nemesis, with 49 cryptocurrency addresses (44 Bitcoin, 5 Monero), and the 20 March 2024 US-German-Lithuanian server seizure that dismantled the marketplace - no successor market being identified.

**Dataset id:** src\_trmlabs\_nemesis\_sanctions\_2025

## Research notes

- Page date line reads 'March 3, 2025'; author given as the TRM Team.
- Blockchain-analytics vendor commentary on an OFAC action; the Treasury press release and OFAC SDN entry are the authoritative citations for the designation itself.
- It reports roughly €94,000 (about USD 102,000) in cryptocurrency confiscated during the March 2024 seizure.

How this source is used

Cited 1 time across 1 record type.

The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.

Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.

## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[No documented return](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/nemesis-market-seizure)

Relationship not established, Nemesis Market seizure

Later outcome

[All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)
