According to the official announcement on the law firm’s website, it is the only representative of the owners of the BTC-e (Wex) crypto exchange on the issue of receiving client requests. Applications are accepted in Russian and English via email and WhatsApp and Telegram messengers.
Representatives of Lidings clarified that they do not provide consultations to exchange clients, but simply collect applications for the return of assets legally transferred by users to BTC-e (Wex) for investment purposes. Clients will be required to provide personal data, including extracts from the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation (FTS), show sources of funds and confirm ownership of cryptocurrency wallets.
The BTC-e exchange was closed in 2017 after the intervention of US law enforcement. Co-founder Alexander Vinnik was detained in Greece and then extradited to the United States, where he was charged with fraud, participation in a criminal group and money laundering. After Alexander Vinnik was arrested, the exchange administration tried to relaunch the platform under a new brand – WEX. But the attempt was unsuccessful. Clients were unable to receive their funds, and according to preliminary estimates, they lost billions of rubles. In 2022, another co-founder of the project, Alexey Bilyuchenko, who managed to change his last name to Ivanov, was detained in Russia.
In 2023, the Singaporean company World Exchange Services, through the Zaeltsovsky District Court of Novosibirsk, achieved compensation for 3.1 billion rubles of Wex assets, of which Bilyuchenko (Ivanov) was accused of theft. In the fall of 2023, a Moscow court sentenced the Wex administrator to 3.5 years in prison. Recently, another Moscow court decided that Bilyuchenko-Ivanov must compensate World Exchange Services 18 billion rubles.
Earlier, Alexander Vinnik’s lawyer reported that the Russian made a deal with the American prosecutor’s office and pleaded guilty to laundering $9 billion using cryptocurrencies.
Source: Bits
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