Three operators of currency mixers Blender and Sinbad were charged with money laundering and operating an unlicensed remittance business.

PANews reported on January 11 that according to The Block, a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia indicted three Russian citizens for crimes related to the operation of two cryptocurrency mixers. According to an announcement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, defendants Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, and Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov are suspected of operating two currency mixing companies named Blender.io and Sinbad.io. They were charged with conspiring to launder money and operating an unlicensed money transfer business.

In May 2022, the United States imposed sanctions on Blender after it was discovered that North Korean hackers used Blender to launder money and made $20.5 million from the Axie Infinity hack worth approximately $600 million. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic noted in 2023 that Sinbad was likely a rebranded version of Blender, operated by the same organization. Blender adheres to a "no logs policy" and removes user transaction details. The company ran from 2018 to 2022, with successor Sinbad arriving a few months after Blender shut down. On November 27, 2023, law enforcement took action to shut down Sinbad. If convicted, the defendants could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for money laundering and up to 5 years in prison for operating an unlicensed money transfer business. Ostapenko and Oleynik were arrested on December 1, 2024. Tarasov remains at large.