{"id":666842,"date":"2026-10-05T04:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=853114"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:30:26","slug":"japans-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-hits-garantex-with-asset-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/japans-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-hits-garantex-with-asset-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hits Garantex With Asset Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/japans-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-hits-garantex-with-asset-freeze-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Japan added Russian crypto exchange Garantex to its asset-freeze list this week, joining the U.S. and European Union in targeting a platform Treasury says handled more than $100 million tied to ransomware and other illicit activity. There\u2019s one catch. U.S. authorities seized Garantex\u2019s domain in March 2025, and Treasury says its staff had already shifted [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan added Russian crypto exchange Garantex to its asset-freeze list this week, joining the U.S. and European Union in targeting a platform Treasury says handled more than $100 million tied to ransomware and other illicit activity. There\u2019s one catch. U.S. authorities seized Garantex\u2019s domain in March 2025, and Treasury says its staff had already shifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-666842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666842","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=666842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}