# Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses | United States Department of Justice

<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering>

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## What Jamie wrote

In August 2022 the [US Treasury took action against Tornado Cash](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916) which hid the sender and receiver of transfers on Ethereum. Now the DOJ has arrested the founders of Samourai Wallet for running a similar service for Bitcoin, referred to in the case as a "cryptocurrency mixer". The DOJ has made a clear line that crypto services that anonymize transactions in their opinion are illegal. These services are used for criminal activity for sure, but providing privacy of blockchain transactions is a problem to solve. What will happen when the first blockchain builds this feature into the base layer?

## Facts

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