Federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges on Wednesday against two men accused of operating AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service that processed more than $389 million in transactions since 2021. Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk, 37, a Ukrainian national, and Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev, 25, a Russian national, were arrested the same day in Batumi, Georgia. Each is awaiting extradition and faces one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and one count of sting money laundering, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said in a statement on Thursday. According to the ... (full story)