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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](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/united-states-attorney-s-office-for-the-southern-district-of-new-york), [Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/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.

[See what happened](#what-happened)

What happened to the people?

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

[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

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]](#source-1)

- [Federal Bureau of Investigation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation), supporting
- [Icelandic Police](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/icelandic-police), supporting

**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

## 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: 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.

[See the organizations and roles behind this action](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/samourai-wallet-seizure/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.
[Samourai Wallet founders arrested; infrastructure seized](https://takedownindex.org/sources/us-doj-usao-sdny-irs-ci-fbi-samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-infrastructure-sei)

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.

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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