Indicted BTC-e Founder Alexander Vinnik Seeks to Gain Freedom via Prisoner Swap Deal
A potential swap deal for Vinnik is increasingly looking to have a high probability.
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A potential swap deal for Vinnik is increasingly looking to have a high probability.
The embattled former BTC-e operator has spent over 3 months in US custody and wants bail due to his trial delay.
The service wallet was inactive for seven years, but all of a sudden, transferred massive amounts of BTC to personal wallets.
The Bitcoin wallet sent 10,000 BTC to different wallets which further transferred to several other crypto wallets.
On Monday, the French prosecutors announced a five-year-sentence for Russian national Alexander Vinnik for his alleged involvement in creating software to launder money. He faces multiple charges of helping cybercriminals and ransomware gangs.
According to Vinnik’s lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou, Alexander is at the hospital in Paris and the French authorities will try to question him tonight.
The recent news reported that Greece has decided to transfer former BTC-e admin Alexander Vinnik to France. However, he is going to the U.S., according to the RIA news site and his lawyer.
General manager of BIS who has a powerful name and is influential enough to change the industries says central banks’ cryptocurrencies may have a chance.
The BBC Russian service allegedly links $450 million in missing Wex funds to the Russian FSB. It is said that the crypto assets may have been transferred to a fund belonging to the FSB.
On 25th July, FinCEN, an agency within the US treasury department, levied a fine on both Vinnik and BTC-e to the amount of $88,596,314 and $12,000,000, plus interest as provided by law for the involvement in certain monetary related criminal activities.