# US seizes accounts of payments group working for Tether and Bitfinex bank

https://mins.news/en/item/73731

- Financial Times, 2026-09-25 09:58 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.ft.com/content/1477567d-64b0-431a-b707-e2a4f5a9f8dc?syn-25a6b1a6=1

> US prosecutors allege that payments group Capstone illegally moved hundreds of millions of dollars for crypto companies Tether and Bitfinex, acting at the direction of a Caribbean bank. Authorities have seized the group’s bank accounts.

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