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Samourai Wallet seizure

April 2024, Cryptocurrency laundering
Led by United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation

Extended pass entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

Web servers seized in Iceland; domain/app infrastructure seized in the US.

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What happened to the people?

Officials reported 2 charged and 2 apprehended.
Group accounted for: Likely complete

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Did it stay down?

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

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USAO SDNY/IRS-CI/FBI, with Icelandic authorities, arrested the founders of Samourai Wallet, a cryptocurrency-mixing service; Icelandic authorities seized web servers and a US warrant seized domain/app infrastructure.

Date
April 2024
Target
Samourai Wallet, cryptocurrency mixing service
Activity
Cryptocurrency laundering
Operational lead
USAO-SDNY and IRS-CI
Partners
FBI, Ríkislögreglustjórinn[1]
Jurisdiction
Not established
Outcome
Web servers seized in Iceland; domain/app infrastructure seized in the US.
Status
Completed
Legal mechanism
Federal criminal complaint (S.D.N.Y.); US seizure warrant; Icelandic judicial cooperation.
Group accounted for
Likely complete

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: Likely complete

Both named founders reported arrested; individual names were not established in the source reviewed for this pass, so recorded as an aggregate count rather than placeholder person records.

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

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Official sources

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    Samourai Wallet founders arrested; infrastructure seized

    US DOJ / USAO SDNY / IRS-CI / FBI, April 24, 2024, Source grade P1

    Establishes the arrest of Samourai Wallet's founders and the seizure of web servers (Iceland) and domain/app infrastructure (US).

    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.