According to online reports, according to the British Financial Times, U.S. prosecutors have charged Iuri Gugnin, founder of cryptocurrency payment company Evita, with evading sanctions and violating export controls, accusing him of laundering more than $500 million and assisting Russia in acquiring sensitive technology. Gugnin was charged Monday with telecommunications and bank fraud, money laundering and other crimes, court documents released in Brooklyn Federal Court showed. The Justice Department said he was arrested and arraigned in New York. Prosecutors accuse Gugnin of using his company to pay for sensitive electronic products for overseas customers, including U.S. -designed servers subject to export controls, and of laundering money to purchase parts for Russia's state atomic energy company (Rosatom).