{
  "id": "case-boiko-qqaazz",
  "slug": "us-v-boiko-qqaazz-laundering",
  "title": "U.S. v. Maksim Boiko (QQAAZZ Cyber Laundering Network)",
  "summary": "Russian cryptocurrency trader and Instagram influencer who operated as a high-level money launderer for QQAAZZ, an all-in-one cashout network servicing Dridex, Trickbot, and BitPaymer ransomware gangs.",
  "case_number": "2:20-cr-00227",
  "court": "U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania",
  "district": "W.D. Pa.",
  "country": "United States",
  "opened_at": "2020-09-15",
  "status": "sentenced",
  "victim_sector": "Financial Institutions, Ransomware Victims",
  "victim_country": "United States, United Kingdom, Latvia, Georgia",
  "loss_amount_usd": 20000000,
  "loss_amount_note": "Laundered tens of millions of dollars stolen from corporate victims via hundreds of dummy shell bank accounts across Europe.",
  "first_seen_at": "2016-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "last_updated_at": "2026-07-10T14:00:00Z",
  "actor_slug": "qqaazz",
  "defendant_slugs": [
    "maksim-boiko"
  ],
  "cves": [],
  "techniques": [
    {
      "technique_id": "T1090",
      "evidence_excerpt": "QQAAZZ used hundreds of bank accounts opened in the names of fake shell companies to rapidly layer stolen wire funds before converting them into Bitcoin.",
      "evidence_locator": "Indictment \u00b6 16, Page 9",
      "mapping_status": "reviewed",
      "mapped_by": "rule",
      "source_title": "Indictment: U.S. v. Boiko",
      "source_url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fourteen-alleged-members-qqaazz-cybercrime-network-charged-laundering-millions-stolen-cyber",
      "technique_name": "Proxy",
      "tactic": "Command and Control"
    }
  ],
  "events": [
    {
      "event_type": "arrest",
      "event_date": "2020-03-28",
      "description": "Boiko arrested in Miami, Florida, with $3.8 million in seized cryptocurrency."
    },
    {
      "event_type": "plea",
      "event_date": "2021-04-12",
      "description": "Pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in federal court in Pittsburgh."
    },
    {
      "event_type": "sentencing",
      "event_date": "2021-07-16",
      "description": "Sentenced to time served and ordered to forfeit over $3.8 million in illicit cryptocurrency."
    }
  ]
}