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A Russian crypto entrepreneur, charged with laundering money from ransomware attacks, has been sentenced to probation and fined in the U.S. after pleading guilty. Founder of two coin trading platforms, Denis Dubnikov, was arrested in the Netherlands and extradited to the U.S. last year. Oregon Court Sentences Russian for Processing Ryuk Payments A Russian national accused of money laundering related to the distribution of ransomware has been sentenced to three years of probation in the United States. Denis Dubnikov was arrested in Amsterdam in November 2021, and then extradited to the U.S. in August 2022. A federal court in Oregon has also ordered the 30-year-old crypto businessman to forfeit proceeds in the amount of $2,000, representing a portion of what he made as a result of his criminal activity, and pay $10,100 in criminal monetary penalties. Initially, American prosecutors accused the Russian and his accomplices of laundering proceeds from Ryuk ransomware attacks on indiv

The Syrian foreign minister says the U.S. imposes sanctions on Syria and Russia to steal their assets and keep them under its hegemony. The U.S. is “the biggest beneficiary of wars and fueling global conflicts, with the aim of maintaining the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and trade,” said a Russian official. US Sanctions Aimed at Stealing Assets and Keeping Targeted Nations Under Its Hegemony, Says Syrian Official The Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Faisal Mekdad, met with Alexander Yakovenko, the Rector of the Diplomatic Academy at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday. During their meeting in Damascus, Mekdad slammed the U.S. and its Western allies for imposing unilateral sanctions on his country and several other nations, according to the Syrian government-controlled news agency, SANA. He explained that the West is attempting to maintain its dominance over the world by creating rules that align with its own objectives and ambitions, regard