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Media: DJ Guttersnipe arrested on suspicion of money laundering via the darknet

06/08/2020

Lena Dzhess

Media: DJ Guttersnipe arrested on suspicion of money laundering via the darknet

Media: DJ Guttersnipe arrested on suspicion of money laundering via the darknet

Russian DJ DenisKaznacheev was arrested in Berlin at the request of the US Department of Justice. He is suspected of cyber fraud and money laundering of $ 1 million through the darknet, according to the musician's Facebook page.

According to TASS, the DJ was arrested for a weekback based on an order issued in December 2019 by a court in one of Maryland's 24 counties. According to the prosecution, Kaznacheev was involved in money laundering during 2010-2020 as part of the Russian cyber mafia.

The DJ is now in custody in the Germanprison, he categorically denies his guilt. A TASS source said that, according to Kaznacheev, the ID and IP address indicated in the case had nothing to do with him and he did not know any of the alleged accomplices.

Friends of Denis Kaznacheev, who published a post inFacebook suggested that its personal data could have been stolen by fraudsters and used for illegal activities. They created a petition in defense of the musician and organized a fundraiser to pay legal fees.

Denis Kaznacheev, acting under the pseudonyms Guttersnipe and Cast, was born in 1983 in the city of Tashtagol, Kemerovo Region. More than six thousand people have subscribed to his page on SoundCloud.

We will remind, in May, the German prosecutor's office issued a warrantto arrest the alleged GRU officer Dmitry Badin. The Russian was accused of committing a hacker attack on the Bundestag in 2015 and illegal activities using cryptocurrencies.