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# Garantex disruption

March 2025, Cryptocurrency laundering
Led by [United States Secret Service](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/united-states-secret-service)

Extended pass entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

Domains seized by US authorities; parallel infrastructure/fund actions in Germany and Finland.

[See what happened](#what-happened)

What happened to the people?

No individual outcomes are recorded against this entry.
Group accounted for: Not established

[See people and accountability](#people)

Did it stay down?

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

[See what happened afterward](#afterward)

## What happened

US Secret Service and DOJ seized domains associated with Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange the US had previously sanctioned, while German and Finnish authorities took parallel action against infrastructure and funds.

**Date:** March 2025

**Target:** Garantex, cryptocurrency exchange

**Activity:** Cryptocurrency laundering

**Operational lead:** USSS

**Partners**

DOJ, NBI[[1]](#source-1)

- [United States Department of Justice](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/united-states-department-of-justice), prosecuting
- [Finnish National Bureau of Investigation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/finnish-national-bureau-of-investigation), supporting

**Jurisdiction:** Not established

**Outcome:** Domains seized by US authorities; parallel infrastructure/fund actions in Germany and Finland.

**Status:** Completed

**Legal mechanism:** US seizure warrant; German and Finnish judicial authority.

**Group accounted for:** Not established

## People and accountability

No individual is named against this entry in the cited record. That is a gap in what has been published rather than a finding that nobody was involved.

Group accounted for: Not established

The cited record does not say how large the group was or whether everyone involved has been identified.

[See the organizations and roles behind this action](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/garantex-disruption/organizations)

## What happened afterward

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

## Sources

Numbered markers throughout this entry link to the source that supports the claim beside them.

### Official sources

1.
[Garantex cryptocurrency exchange domains seized](https://takedownindex.org/sources/us-secret-service-doj-garantex-cryptocurrency-exchange-domains-seized)

US Secret Service / DOJ, March 7, 2025, Source grade P1

Establishes the US domain seizure and parallel German/Finnish actions against Garantex.

No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

Coverage note. Added from deep-research aggregation pass. Not independently re-verified source-by-source to the same standard as the original 38-incident core; source\_quality capped at S2/P2 pending a dedicated verification pass.

Research context

## How this entry was checked

This entry came from a broader aggregation pass and has not been independently verified source by source. Its sources are graded no higher than P2 or S2, and most carry no address yet. Treat the figures as a research lead rather than a settled record.

Source review: Extended pass, not yet verified

Sources cited: 1

Research cutoff: August 20, 2026

Last reviewed August 21, 2026

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