ISIS-K 的媒体部门 al-Azaim 媒体基金会历来通过网站和消息平台募集加密货币捐款。 Chainaanalysis 表示，一些新批准的钱包将加密货币发送到位于叙利亚的交易所。
Tron 由加密货币企业家孙宇晨创立，长期以来一直被美国政府制裁或以其他方式针对的实体使用。今年早些时候，Tether 冻结了被联邦当局标记为与非法活动有联系的 Tron 钱包中价值 3.44 亿美元的 USDT。
本周，与 ISIS 相关的波场 (Tron) 新制裁出台之际，Sun 与唐纳德·特朗普总统的家人的关系（一度良好）急剧恶化。孙宇晨曾经是特朗普家族加密货币野心的最大金融支持者之一，他于 4 月份起诉了该家族的加密货币平台 World Liberty Financial，指控该公司非法冻结了他的代币并剥夺了他的治理权。
此后，World Liberty 以诽谤罪反诉，指控 Sun 策划了一场压制代币价格的活动，然后在其资产被冻结后诽谤该公司。
在周三的另一项行动中，OFAC 还制裁了两名巴西国民和四家与犯罪组织 Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) 有关的公司，指控他们使用加密货币将在美国产生的超过 3000 万美元的贩毒收益转移回巴西。
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The Treasury Department sanctioned 134 crypto wallets tied to ISIS-K, including 131 on Tron.
Chainalysis said the sanctioned Tron wallets received over $1.4 million since 2023.
The sanctions come as Tron founder Justin Sun remains embroiled in a legal battle with the Trump family's World Liberty Financial.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned more than 130 cryptocurrency wallet addresses this week tied to ISIS, with the overwhelming majority operating on the Tron blockchain.
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallets to existing sanctions on ISIS-K, the Islamic State's affiliate operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia. Of those addresses, 131 were on Tron and three on Monero.
The sanctioned Tron addresses have received more than $1.4 million since 2023 and sent over $880,000 during that period, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The firm noted that stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen balances affiliated with all 131 sanctioned Tron wallets.
ISIS-K's media arm, the al-Azaim Media Foundation, has historically solicited cryptocurrency donations through websites and messaging platforms. Several of the newly sanctioned wallets sent crypto to Syria-based exchanges, Chainalysis said.
Tron, founded by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, has a long history of usage by entities sanctioned or otherwise targeted by the U.S. government. Earlier this year, Tether froze $344 million worth of USDT in Tron wallets flagged by federal authorities as having connections to illicit activity.
This week’s new ISIS-related Tron sanctions come as Sun's relationship with President Donald Trump’s family—once rosy—has sharply deteriorated. Once among the largest financial backers of the Trump family's crypto ambitions, Sun sued the family’s crypto platform World Liberty Financial in April, alleging the company unlawfully froze his tokens and stripped him of governance rights.
World Liberty has since countersued for defamation, accusing Sun of orchestrating a campaign to suppress the token's price and then defaming the company after his assets were frozen.
In a separate action Wednesday, OFAC also sanctioned two Brazilian nationals and four companies tied to the criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), alleging they used crypto to move more than $30 million in drug trafficking proceeds, generated in the United States, back to Brazil.
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