Russia Sanctions 17-Year-Old British Student Alexander Browder for Exposing $350B Crypto Laundering

Russia's Foreign Ministry sanctioned British teenager Alexander Browder on Wednesday, making him the youngest person ever targeted by Moscow's sanctions regime. Browder, 17, founder of the Global Cryptocurrency Laundering Database, was banned from entering Russia alongside four other British nationals, including Washington Post reporter Catherine Belton. The sanctions retaliate for Browder's March 2026 report alleging that Russia, Iran, and North Korea have laundered $350 billion in illicit cryptocurrency. His research focused on the A7A5 stablecoin—a ruble-backed digital currency launched in January 2025 and allegedly used to evade Western sanctions, claiming $90 billion in transactions last year according to UK government data.
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