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September 16, 2023

The U.S. War Against The Russian Crypto Industry!

Before Western sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine invasion began in February 2022, U.S. authorities were cracking down on the Russian crypto scene. Since the beginning of the new sanctions in 2022, the American approach against the Russian crypto scene, which is under general suspicion of money laundering and sanctions violations, has intensified and is bringing charges against Russian crypto schemes and their masterminds.

August 10, 2023

Russian High-Risk Entrepreneur Sergey Mayzus Unwanted Person In Czech Republic!

Russian Sergey Mayzus is a notorious entrepreneur in high-risk payment and online trading. He founded the now CySEC-regulated broker InstaForex in Russia in 2007, which has had many regulatory problems. The UK FCA revoked his Mayzus Financial Services Ltd license as a payment processor in 2018. Mazyos was allegedly involved in Alexander Vinnik's Russian collapsed crypto exchange BTC-e as a payment processor. Mayzus seems to have legal issues in the Czech Republic.

June 11, 2023

Russian Nationals Charged With Hacking And Operating Crypto Exchanges Mt. Cox and BTC-e.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has revealed charges linked to the collapsed crypto exchanges Mt. Gox and BTC-e. Two Russian nationals, Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29), are accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins obtained through a Mt. Gox hack. Bilyuchenko is additionally charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to run the laundromat BTC-e between 2011 and 2017.

May 25, 2023

Alleged Russian Crypto Money Launderer Lobbies For Prisoner Swap!

Alexander Vinnik, 43, the Russian co-founder of bitcoin exchange BTC-e, was arrested in Greece in 2017 on U.S. money-laundering charges and later extradited. He is facing U.S. money-laundering charges and allegedly laundered more than $4 billion of criminal proceeds via BTC-e. Vinnik pleaded not guilty and could be included in a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia that could free detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

August 7, 2022

Embattled Case! Alleged Russian Money Launderer Alexander Vinnik Finally Extradited To The U.S.

It is a complicated international case! In January 2017, U.S. prosecutors indicted the Russian Alexander Vinnik charging him with money laundering, computer hacking, and drug trafficking. Vinnik was the operator of the illicit crypto exchange BTC-e and allegedly laundered more than $4 billion in bitcoin connected o cybercrime, drug trafficking, public corruption, and tax refund fraud schemes. In July 2017, Vinnik was arrested in Greece and was extradited to the United States on 4 August 2022.

January 29, 2019

OCCRP Report On BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik And The Cold Cyber War Between U.S. And Russia

The Russian Alexander VINNIK was indicted by U.S. authorities in July 2017 charging with money laundering, computer hacking, and drug trafficking. VINNIK was the operator..

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