ZachXBT: Russian OTC Broker Allegedly Assists Ransomware Gang in Laundering $4.7 Million

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, March 24 — According to on-chain analyst ZachXBT (@zachxbt), Russian OTC broker Aleksandr Khinkis (Aleks) has been suspected of assisting a ransomware group with money laundering since July 2025. He has transferred over $4.7 million through a single cryptocurrency exchange account, involving three ransom payments totaling 796 BTC. Investigators disguised themselves as potential clients on Telegram and successfully obtained his exchange deposit address (0xa756…0706e). On-chain forensic data shows that the related funds were bridged via Bitcoin cross-chain to the Avalanche network, with 75 transfers flowing into this address; among them, a ransom payment of 164 BTC in October 2025, worth about $3.8 million, was exchanged on an instant exchange and sent to the Tron network. Seven Tron addresses associated with this activity were blacklisted by Tether in November 2025.

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