US authorities have charged two alleged operators of a cryptocurrency laundering service accused of processing more than $389 million in illicit digital asset transactions while helping users bypass exchange anti-money laundering checks.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk and Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev were arrested in Georgia following an international operation targeting the “AudiA6” crypto laundering network.

According to prosecutors, the service allegedly laundered roughly 10,333 BTC tied to darknet markets, ransomware groups, cybercrime services, and other illicit sources since 2021.

Authorities from the United States, Europol, Germany, France,…