TRM Labs reports that Argentine Federal Police arrested a Russian national accused of laundering illicit cryptocurrency through an Argentina-based operation. The DPRK-relevant finding is that the subject allegedly accepted proceeds from illicit actors including North Korea’s Lazarus Group, alongside other criminal and terrorist-financing sources. Investigators used blockchain intelligence to follow transactions across multiple assets and blockchains, and authorities seized more than $120,000 in cryptocurrency during the arrest plus another $15 million from properties the subject controlled. The case matters because it shows law-enforcement disruption of laundering infrastructure allegedly used to convert Lazarus-linked illicit crypto into cleaner cryptocurrency and fiat currency.