Source: www.rucriminal.info
In the last article we talked about interesting “pocket” crypto exchanges in the City, registered to outright drops and with an exceptionally stellar cast of actual founders.
In this article, we will tell you more about one such exchanger, which, by the way, has not yet received a single real inspection, which we are certainly saddened and genuinely puzzled as to how it happened.
So, we will talk about Grambit exchange, which is quite popular in the City (note that even the name of the exchange has “grams” in it - the founders are apparently good at trolling).
If you analyze Grambit's “purity” today, it may seem simply exemplary. But there are nuances. For the last couple of years, the exchange has moved to a third-party crypto wallet service. What this means: the wallet has a single external address, to which in fact all money for all users comes, and further received funds are moved within the wallet, leaving no public traces in the blockchain. Therefore, it is impossible to trace the “purity” of the funds received on the Grambit account today.
However, we do have information about what funds flowed to Grambit between 2021 and 2022, before it moved to a third-party wallet. Back then, Grambit was hosted on various exchanges (which took turns kicking it out, apparently for good reason), and the blockchain still remembers everything it accepted to its deposit addresses. And it accepted a lot of interesting things, and with enviable regularity.
For example, Grambit successfully delivered 416 BTC tagged with the “Ransomware” tag. This is a very toxic tag itself, which is used to mark funds received by hackers, ransomware distributors of all sorts of malicious viruses. But it's worth noting that Grambit received funds related to the scandalous hacker groups ALPHV Blackcat and DarkSide, which struck critical infrastructure, including hospitals, causing many deaths, including Russian and CIS citizens. In addition to the funds clearly labeled “Ransomware” Grambit accepted another 402.18 BTC from the Jambler mixer (and mixers, as we know, do not simply put crypto into them: they are used only for “covering their tracks” purposes).
In total, Grambit only for 2021-2022 years, “made a profit” on 818 BTC of extremely dubious origin. And this is almost 5 billion rubles at the current exchange rate. The question is why no one was interested in it at the time. It seems that good friends in law enforcement always open up immense business opportunities.
Below is the list of deposit addresses related to Grambit on one of the exchanges:
3PFzZVZoWChS2n9F7bYw7qxTtvi6AT4QG6
39GGmqZHp42VTpKKpMFnmpnU4Rt4rKnKFT
3KVSXxqwS1PdVFi7rLap1sGP57MZFN9DG1
36EibHm35XACBDPb37Rvbnc8Hrm91e4U2e
38q5qxHRhM69gzd5i25UywmBw51McNvEqm
bc1qtf3p3cfp89z7a5ypfzf4220mus6g0znrqv06sl
bc1qmtt8xzfwd8fqwxs4ll0uh8e4wdrucwqjgm9ghl
bc1qzg4f9y04j9wf53tul3a7z0fz82np2wrw5exjxm
bc1qjy9autnshffadgjyvrcqzjujadrst09ptjdvuj
bc1qf2fr46sdcjj6jaw7naqqhtga4sx7fxzzttlmnl
What else is known about Grambit. A lot of interesting facts about one of its actual founders, known as “Sparrow” (from Russian “Vorobey”(aka Alexander Alexandrovich Vorobyev, born in Khabarovsk, 16.01.1989, nickname in Telegram @vrbbtc, possible tel. 89215964130, who deleted all his social networks for some purpose).
Vorobyov’s personal deposit address on Binance (1HtURPQDQDKDZ7N3CH2rShSJsJsKbRVVzU7nSvQ) consists of almost half of the proceeds from the darknet site. He also has a second address, belonging to his dropout Bautin Andrei Vladimirovich, born in 1984, but actually belonging to Vorobyov (1HBcnZtJFfkCuFZ5Nkf7UbCoBs8arCqh31). Vorobyov’s second wallet also has 45% of its funds coming from the darknet.
Vorobyov owns another exchanger in the City, Excoin. Apparently, Vorobyov conducts his drug activity through it. Blockchain analyzers show one of the exchange's deposit addresses on one of the exchanges (3JwoCidJvij79RGpYTBrL1ZmXpLJTWFDvX) regularly accepts crypto from the darknet site. The total amount of funds received on the exchange service from there amounted to more than 35 BTC.
It is also worth paying attention to Vorobyov's “interesting” social circle. Here are just some of his associates:
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-Shabatura Alexander Konstantinovich, a native of Balti, Moldavian region, born in 1962 (trafficked cocaine in the territory of St. Petersburg, served 7 years in prison)
- Kiryanov Nikolai Zakharovich, Lithuanian, born in 1984 (served 3 years in prison for fraud).
- Andrey Gennalievich Shipkov, a Muscovite born in 1963 (He was involved in cocaine trafficking from St. Petersburg to Moscow, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison).
And many other no less interesting characters....
Comrade Caretakers, we've done all the work for you. Come in, take a look, eh?
Or, as in the 21st year, will you go in again for show, but you will throw up your hands and say that supposedly everything is clean and you have not found anything suspicious? This time, if they “find a compromise” with you again, it will be much more difficult for you to get away with it.
Source: www.rucriminal.info
