The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned 49 Bitcoin and Monero addresses associated with the dark web marketplace Nemesis.

On March 5th, according to an announcement made by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. government has placed 49 cryptocurrency addresses on its sanctions list. These addresses are under the control of Iranian national Behrouz Parsarad, who is identified as the administrator of the darknet marketplace Nemesis. The sanctioned addresses consist of 44 Bitcoin addresses and 5 Monero addresses. Before its closure, Nemesis had 30,000 active users and was involved in facilitating nearly $30 million worth of drug transactions during its three years of operation. According to OFAC, Parsarad made millions of dollars by charging transaction fees to users and is suspected of laundering money for drug traffickers and cybercriminals. Nemesis facilitated a wide variety of transactions, including drugs, personal identity data, forged documents, ransomware, and cybercrime tools (such as phishing attacks and DDoS tools).