Alexander Phoenic, the former operator of Bitcoin Bitch-e, is once released from the American nursery as part of the exchange of prisoners with Russia.
Vinnik, 44, is replaced by the American teacher, Mark Vogel, who returned to the United States last night after the negotiators made a sudden penetration with the Kremlin. It was not immediately clear who was on the other side of the deal.
But BTC-E was one of the early stock exchanges that popularized and selling the most popular digital assets in the world. She had more than a million customers and transported more than $ 9 billion of transactions between 2011 and 2017.
Its popularity also strengthened a prosperous underground criminal who relies on him to move to the wrong bitcoin revenues and outside, according to American prosecutors. They accused Vinnik of running BTC-E with the intention of promoting drug dealers, money files and other Internet criminals, and caused the loss of $ 121 million.
Phoenic was arrested in Greece in 2017, eventually reached the United States, and he pledged guilt in a money laundering plot in 2024 and faced a maximum imprisonment.
His lawyers had previously pressured in vain to include him in the expertise of the high -end of the United States prisoners in Russia, such as last year’s deal on the Wall Street Journal, former Ivan Girchkovic prison.
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