The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added 49 Bitcoin (BTC) and Monero (XMR) addresses associated with Behrouz Parsarad, an Iranian individual who managed the Nemesis black market. This action is part of ongoing efforts to disrupt financial networks related to drug trafficking and illegal digital activities. Nemesis served as a digital black market for buying and selling fentanyl, forged documents, cyber intrusion tools, and ransomware. It operated through anonymous technologies like Tor, with over 150,000 users and 1,100 vendors. Parsarad, as the main architect of Nemesis, organized its technical and financial operations, reportedly making seven-figure profits through transaction fees. Prior to its shutdown, around $30 million was moved through drug trafficking on this platform. The German government led the platform’s closure through global cooperation, with US and Lithuanian authorities seizing its server infrastructure and digital assets worth $102,000. Additionally, the US Treasury, using Executive Order 14059, sanctioned Behrouz Parsarad and published the 49 crypto wallet IDs. The aim is to block assets linked to Parsarad and prohibit financial transactions between American entities and him. According to Blockchain analysts, many sanctioned wallets processed small Bitcoin transactions and interacted with various exchanges like FTX, Paribu, and Coingate. These wallets have been inactive in the past two to three years. Some experts claim that Parsarad may be attempting to revive Nemesis after its shutdown. You can track real-time prices of all tokens and cryptocurrencies on the digital currency momentary price page.
