THELOGICALINDIAN - Dmitry Vasiliev coowner and above arch controlling of the now asleep Russian crypto barter Wex has been arrested aloft entering Croatia bounded media appear The crypto administrator is capital by Kazakhstan area he is accused of burglary money from an investor
Wex Executive Vasiliev Apprehended at the Airport in Zagreb
Belarus-born Dmitry Vasiliev, above CEO of Wex, already the better crypto trading belvedere in the former-Soviet space, has been bedfast at Franjo Tudjman Airport in the Croatian basic on Wednesday, May 25, the Jutarnji List reported.
According to the daily, the authorities in Zagreb accept acted on a red accreditation issued by Interpol on a appeal from Kazakhstan. Vasiliev, who resides in the Russian Federation, is capital in the Central Asian country for ambidexterity an broker of $20,000.
Kazakhstan’s law administration has been gluttonous Vasiliev’s displacement for some time, but the abomination he is accused of there is almost accessory compared to added doubtable offenses. Wex went broke in 2024 and according to estimates by a accumulation of users, the absolute losses beat $400 million.
The account of Vasiliev’s apprehension in Croatia comes afterwards in September aftermost year, the Polish columnist revealed he had been arrested at the Warsaw airport in mid-August and was apprehension displacement to Kazakhstan. In December, it was appear he had alternate to Russia afterward his release.
The crypto agent was additionally briefly apprehended in Italy some two years ago, but Italian authorities let him go afterwards several weeks, citation faults in the displacement request. He was able to acknowledgment to St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, area he lives.
In March 2022, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs appear the arrest of a man accused of burglary banking assets from a cryptocurrency exchange. While neither the being nor the belvedere were identified, a address suggested this was Aleksey Bilyuchenko, addition Wex co-founder.
In 2017, Wex was accustomed as successor of the abominable BTC-e barter which had bankrupt bottomward beforehand that year afterwards the arrest in Greece of one of its declared operators, Alexander Vinnik. The U.S. accuses him of bed-making up to $9 billion through the trading platform. Vinnik was extradited to France, area he was sentenced to bristles years in bastille in December 2020, and is additionally capital by Russia.
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