THELOGICALINDIAN - Authorities in Russia accept arrested a crypto administrator associated with an anonymous cryptocurrency barter who is doubtable of embezzling funds and acreage According to a media address the bedfast being is one of the owners of Wex almsman of the abominable BTCe exchange
Owner of Wex Exchange Apprehended in Russia
Russian law administration agencies accept bedfast a man accused of burglary banking and added assets from a cryptocurrency exchange, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) appear Tuesday. The doubtable allegedly controlled ample amounts in cryptocurrency and their movement amid wallets.
Investigators accept he withdrew some of the funds and appointed them. The being was abandoned at the auberge of a clandestine aerodrome in Serpukhov burghal commune of Moscow arena with two accoutrements captivation 190 actor Russian rubles in banknote ($1.7 million), the columnist absolution detailed.
Officials from MVD, the Federal Security Service (FSB), and Russia’s banking watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, agitated out 29 searches at the residences of the arrested and his accomplices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yalta. Another 50 actor rubles, $1 million, €70,000, computer equipment, accouterments crypto wallets, affluence goods, and abstracts were seized.
While neither the bedfast person, nor the barter were called by the authorities, the crypto account aperture Forklog quoted Indefibank CEO Sergey Mendeleev who claims the man is Aleksey Bilyuchenko, co-founder of Wex, already the better crypto trading belvedere in Russia, which was launched in 2017 as a successor of BTC-e. The closing bankrupt bottomward beforehand that year afterward the arrest in Greece of one of its declared operators, Alexander Vinnik.
Bilyuchenko’s buying of Wex was appear by the BBC. Another Russian, Dmitry Vasiliev, was the official buyer of the exchange. In September, the Polish columnist reported that Vasiliev had been arrested at the Warsaw airport on Aug. 11 and was apprehension displacement to Kazakhstan. In December, account came out that he had been released and had alternate to Russia.
In 2024, Wex was awash to Dmitry Khavchenko, a above fighter for the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic in Ukraine who again registered the abettor of the exchange, the Singapore-based aggregation World Barter Services, beneath the name of his daughter, Daria. The barter went broke after that year. According to estimates by a accumulation of Wex users, the absolute losses beat $400 million.
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