Russian crypto exchanger Mosca raided amid cash-to-crypto ban talks

Mosca, which allows investors to buy up to 100,000 USDT with cash daily, would not confirm whether its platform had anything to do with a local $6 million fraud scheme.

As the Russian government is considering a ban on cash-to-cryptocurrency transactions, some major local crypto exchange platforms have encountered police raids.

Mosca, a crypto-to-cash exchange located in the Moscow International Business Center, was raided on April 23 in connection with fraud by one of its customers, Dmitry Titarenko, Mosca’s development head, confirmed to Cointelegraph.

“Law enforcement agencies have carried out a standard procedure of checking our customer data,” Titarenko told Cointelegraph at the local crypto event Blockchain Forum 2025.

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