The United States has imposed sanctions against the information technology operator Atomize, the financial ecosystem Lighthouse and the blockchain developer Web3 Tech. This was reported on the website of the American Ministry of Justice.
Cyber Security Laboratory, Distributed Registry Systems, the Chinese company Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science And Technology Company, the Estonian BITFINGROUP OU, the Cyprus TOKENTRUST HOLDINGS LIMITED, the crypto exchanger BITPAPA IC FZC LLC from the UAE and more were also subject to restrictions 10 legal entities.
In addition, the US Department of Justice included four people on the sanctions list: Russians Timur Bukanov and Igor Kaygorodov and Chinese citizens Gaobin Ni and Guangzong Zhao. The department's press release states that all these companies and people helped circumvent US sanctions.
The Atomize company was the first to receive permission from the Bank of Russia, allowing it to issue digital financial assets. Web3 Tech developed a blockchain platform for elections and a distributed registry system for the Federal Tax Service of Russia.