{"id":609563,"date":"2026-06-04T20:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/russia-targets-british-17-year-old-for-alleging-digital-assets-were-skirting-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:52:43","slug":"russia-targets-british-17-year-old-for-alleging-digital-assets-were-skirting-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/russia-targets-british-17-year-old-for-alleging-digital-assets-were-skirting-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia targets British 17-year-old for alleging digital assets were skirting sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Political activist Bill Browder, the teenager\u2019s father, said his son was \u201cthe first high school student in the world to be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime\u201d over a report on the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5.<\/p>\n

Alexander Browder, the son of American-British political activist Bill Browder, said that he has been targeted by Russia over allegations that officials used the ruble-pegged A7A5 stablecoin to evade sanctions amid the country’s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday X post, Browder said<\/a> his work through the website Global Cryptocurrency Laundering Database had resulted in him being \u201csanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering corruption.\u201d Specifically, he alleged in a March report that A7A5 was backed by deposits from Russian financial institution Promsvyazban and was used to circumvent Western sanctions stemming from Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 is one of the most prevalent issues facing the West. It is sanctioned in the UK, US and EU but it still operates,\u201d said Browder. \u201cA7A5 holds value through its ability to be converted into cash by criminals. Western governments need to put pressure on the specific exchanges which allow the conversions to happen and the countries which facilitate these exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Political activist Bill Browder, the teenager\u2019s father, said his son was \u201cthe first high school student in the world to be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime\u201d over a report on the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5. Alexander Browder, the son of American-British political activist Bill Browder, said that he has been targeted by Russia over allegations that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-609563","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\/609563","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=609563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}