{"id":58477,"date":"2022-03-03T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58477"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:00:04","slug":"another-crypto-exchange-blocks-russian-citizens-accounts-amid-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/another-crypto-exchange-blocks-russian-citizens-accounts-amid-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Another crypto exchange blocks Russian citizens\u2019 accounts amid sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Gopax <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.gopax.co.kr\/notice\/1114\\\">announced<\/a> the blocking of accounts belonging to Russian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The platform froze accounts using Russian IP addresses, and the funds held on those accounts, in connection with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the EU against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The block took effect on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, amid the war in Ukraine, restrictions for Russian users were imposed by cryptocurrency exchanges Kuna, WhiteBIT and CEX.io.<\/p>\n<p>The United States said it would step up monitoring of Russia&#8217;s evasion of sanctions through cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say that Russia will not be able to circumvent sanctions using crypto assets, given the scale of its economy and the imposed restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Gopax announced the blocking of accounts belonging to Russian citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,27,686],"class_list":["post-58477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-russia","tag-sanctions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58479,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58477\/revisions\/58479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}