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The US Treasury Department sanctions 49 Bitcoin and Monero addresses involving the dark web market Nemesis"

According to online reports, according to an announcement from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. government has included 49 cryptocurrency addresses on the sanctions list. These addresses are controlled by Iranian citizen Behrouz Parsarad, who is accused of being the administrator of the dark web market Nemesis. The sanctioned addresses this time include 44 Bitcoin and 5 Monero addresses. Nemesis had 30,000 active users before it was shut down and facilitated nearly $30 million in drug transactions during its three years of operation. According to OFAC, Parsarad has made millions of dollars by charging users for transaction fees and is suspected of laundering money for drug traffickers and cybercriminals. Nemesis transactions range from drugs, personally identifying data, forged documents, ransomware and cybercrime tools such as phishing attacks and DDoS tools.

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