The ABC television channel news service with reference to an American official said that the US authorities are ready to transfer to CyberPamenth Alexander Vinnik to Russian law enforcement agencies as part of an exchange. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov not before, naming the name Vinnik, Recognizedthat the US citizen was exchanged for a citizen of Russia.
Lawyer Arkady Bukh, representing the interests of Vinnik, told reporters that the last time he spoke with his client at 18:00 on Tuesday, February 11, and since then he no longer got in touch. Vinnik’s card today, February 12, has disappeared from the database of prisoners of the US Federal Bureau.
The return of the BTC co-founder to Russia does not mean the automatic liberation of Vinnik from administrative or criminal liability, since the Russian law enforcement agencies also showed interest in the activities of this cryptocurrency exchange. If it is proven that the crypto platform carried out illegal banking activities, and also contributed to fraud and laundering of funds, its co -founders may threaten criminal punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 15 years.
A year ago, it became known that Alexander Vinnik concluded a deal with the American prosecutor’s office and pleaded guilty to laundering $ 9 billion with cryptocurrencies. According to the lawyer, the transaction made it possible to exclude the risk of a prison term over 100 years.
Source: Bits
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