Law enforcement from 11 countries has shut down the crypto service AudiA6, involved in laundering over €336 million.
Law enforcement from 11 countries has successfully dismantled the crypto service AudiA6, which operated out of Georgia. Authorities estimate that the platform facilitated the laundering of over €336 million between 2022 and 2025.
The operation was a collaborative effort involving agencies from the USA, Australia, France, Poland, Georgia, Iceland, Canada, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and the UK, coordinated through Eurojust and Europol.
During the crackdown, two individuals believed to be administrators of AudiA6 were arrested. Law enforcement executed searches at three sites, took down 25 domains, seized over 30 servers, and confiscated more than 80 vehicles and several properties.
Additionally, authorities froze €692,000 in cryptocurrency and seized another €86,000 in cash. Eurojust noted that AudiA6 was reportedly used by ransomware operators to transfer stolen cryptocurrency into the platform's wallets, receiving "cleaned" funds back within approximately an hour. The laundering process involved a series of transactions that obscured the funds' origins, with fees ranging from 3% to 10%.
Investigators also connected AudiA6 to the darknet forum Dark2Web, where illegal services were promoted, and cybercriminals interacted. They discovered over 6,000 KYC records linked to accounts used by "money mules," which were set up with stolen or purchased identities. Russian-speaking intermediaries were reportedly used to withdraw illicit gains via cryptocurrency exchanges.
According to Chainalysis, since 2021, approximately 10,333 BTC, valued at around $389 million, has been deposited into AudiA6 wallets.
