加密货币公司 Evita 创始人被控转移逾5.3亿美元 助俄方客户逃避制裁洗钱
2025年6月9日，位于纽约州国王县布鲁克林的纽约东区联邦检察官办公室解封一份22项起诉书，加密货币支付公司 Evita 的创始人 Iurii Gugnin 被控以公司为掩护，经美国银行与加密货币交易所转移逾5.3亿美元海外付款，帮助俄方客户逃避美国制裁与出口管制。Gugnin 当日在纽约被捕，在联邦治安法官 Taryn A. Merkl 前过堂，法官裁定将其羁押候审。
Gugnin 又名 Iurii Mashukov 与 George Goognin，现年38岁，是纽约居民、俄罗斯公民，担任 Evita Investments Inc. 与 Evita Pay Inc. 的创始人兼总裁、司库与合规官。检方说，2023年6月至2025年1月，他经 Evita 在美国金融系统内转移约5.3亿美元，多数以稳定币 Tether（USDT）结算；其客户多在曾被制裁的俄罗斯银行持有资金，包括 Sberbank、Sovcombank、VTB 与 Tinkoff，他本人在 Alfa-Bank 与 Sberbank 也设有个人账户。
起诉书指，Gugnin 曾为外国客户采购受出口管制的美国技术公司服务器，为一家莫斯科供应商洗钱购买俄罗斯国家原子能公司（Rosatom）的零部件，并篡改发票、抹去俄方客户的姓名与地址；他对银行与交易所谎称 Evita 不与俄罗斯及受制裁实体往来，没有执行反洗钱计划、没有提交可疑活动报告，还以虚假陈述取得佛罗里达州的货币转移牌照。起诉书还列出他多条自知行为违法的网络搜索记录。
他被控的罪名包括电汇与银行欺诈、共谋欺骗美国、违反《国际紧急经济权力法》、无牌经营货币转移业务、未建立有效反洗钱计划、未报告可疑活动与洗钱等。银行欺诈每项最高可判30年监禁，电汇欺诈、违反该法与洗钱每项最高20年，未建反洗钱计划与未报可疑活动每项最高10年，共谋欺骗美国与无牌经营每项最高5年。起诉书只是指控，Gugnin 在被定罪前依法推定无罪。
联邦检察官 Joseph Nocella Jr.、司法部国家安全司助理部长 John A. Eisenberg 与联邦调查局纽约办公室官员 Christopher G. Raia 等人宣布了起诉。此案由司法部与商务部协调的「颠覆性技术打击力量」参与，联邦调查局与国税局刑事调查部门等机构参与调查。
（来源：美国司法部）
Founder of Crypto Payment Firm Evita Charged With Moving More Than $530 Million to Help Russian Clients Evade Sanctions
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, unsealed a 22-count indictment charging Iurii Gugnin, the founder of the cryptocurrency payment company Evita, with using the company as a front to move more than $530 million in overseas payments through U.S. banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, helping Russian clients evade U.S. sanctions and export controls. Gugnin was arrested in New York that day, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Taryn A. Merkl, and was ordered detained pending trial.
Gugnin, also known as Iurii Mashukov and George Goognin, 38, is a New York resident and Russian citizen who served as founder, president, treasurer and compliance officer of Evita Investments Inc. and Evita Pay Inc. Prosecutors said that from June 2023 through January 2025 he moved about $530 million through the U.S. financial system via Evita, mostly in the stablecoin Tether (USDT). Many of his clients held funds at sanctioned Russian banks, including Sberbank, Sovcombank, VTB and Tinkoff, and he personally held accounts at Alfa-Bank and Sberbank.
The indictment alleged that Gugnin procured export-controlled servers from a U.S. technology company for foreign customers, laundered money for a Moscow supplier to buy components for Russia's state atomic energy company Rosatom, and falsified invoices to strip out Russian customers' names and addresses. He allegedly lied to banks and exchanges that Evita did no business with Russia or sanctioned entities, failed to implement an anti-money laundering program, failed to file suspicious activity reports, and obtained a Florida money transmitter license through false statements. The indictment also listed his internet searches showing he knew his conduct was illegal.
The charges include wire and bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, unlicensed money transmission, failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program, failure to report suspicious activity, and money laundering. Bank fraud carries up to 30 years in prison per count; wire fraud, the IEEPA violations and money laundering up to 20 years; the anti-money laundering and reporting counts up to 10 years; and conspiracy to defraud the United States and unlicensed money transmission up to five years. An indictment is merely an allegation, and Gugnin is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr., Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg and FBI New York official Christopher G. Raia were among those who announced the charges. The case was coordinated through the Disruptive Technology Strike Force of the Justice and Commerce Departments, and was investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation, among other agencies.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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