Donald Trump exchanged Alexander Vinnik for the American teacher Mark Fogel, who was serving his sentence in the Russian prison. This was reported by the presidential administration to reporters Nypost.
Mark Vogel is an ex-employee of the US Embassy, who was arrested in August 2021 at Sheremetyevo Airport (Moscow) for smuggling of narcotic substances. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Vinnika was detained in the summer of 2017 in Greece on suspicion of ties with BTC-E exchange and laundering. In 2020, he was extracted to France, where he was later sentenced to five years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros. Accusations of extortion and creating a malicious Locki program were removed from him.
In August 2022, Vinnik was taken to the United States, where he was threatened with 55 years in prison. The court refused to free him on bail.
In May 2024, the Russian pleaded guilty to conspiracy in order to launder money through a trading platform. He was assigned losses in the amount of at least $ 121 million. In his homeland, Vinnik was also accused of fraud.
In March, the verdict in the Red Admin case Alexei Bilyuchenko (Ivanova) entered into force in the Russian Federation. The latter, along with Vinnik, as well as a citizen of Belarus and Cyprus, Alexander Klimenko, from 2011 to July 2017, owned the BTC-E exchange, the Ministry of Justice of the CCI believes.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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