{"id":604977,"date":"2026-05-26T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/uk-authorities-sanction-htx-crypto-exchange-over-support-for-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:51:04","slug":"uk-authorities-sanction-htx-crypto-exchange-over-support-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/uk-authorities-sanction-htx-crypto-exchange-over-support-for-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"UK authorities sanction HTX crypto exchange over support for Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UK<\/p>\n

Formerly Huobi Global, the exchange is the latest entity to be named as part of a crackdown on companies \u201cexploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UK government has added cryptocurrency exchange HTX to its list of sanctioned entities over its support of Russia.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, UK authorities said<\/a> that there were \u201creasonable grounds to suspect\u201d HTX, formerly Huobi Global, has been supporting Russia\u2019s government through financial services and funds facilitated by the A7 Limited Liability Company and Garantex, other sanctioned entities. The crypto exchange, headquartered in Panama, was the latest to be named<\/a> as part of a crackdown on entities \u201cexploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Kremlin thinks it can evade our sanctions by hiding behind crypto networks and shadow financial systems, it is gravely mistaken,\u201d said UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Formerly Huobi Global, the exchange is the latest entity to be named as part of a crackdown on companies \u201cexploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions.\u201d The UK government has added cryptocurrency exchange HTX to its list of sanctioned entities over its support of Russia. On Tuesday, UK authorities said that there were \u201creasonable grounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-604977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}