THELOGICALINDIAN - Russian aborigine Alexander Vinnik doubtable of acceptable abyss in bed-making billions was extradited to France area he will face bent charges
Major doubtable in a money-laundering operation to be answerable in France
Alexander Vinnik, a Russian citizen, was arrested in Greece aback in 2017 due to his doubtable captivation in a massive money-laundering operation that allegedly complex billions of dollars. Vinnik was accused of authoritative a crypto barter that accustomed abyss to launder huge amounts of money.
During his incarceration, several of the world’s admiral — Russia, France, and the US — accept been negotiating his extradition. Now, according to the account from his defense, he will be adverse accuse in France.
Vinnik was extradited to France aftermost Thursday, and the authorities accept charged him with aggravated money laundering, extortion, conspiracy, as able-bodied as harming data-processing systems. However, for now, the authorities did not acknowledge back and if the balloon will begin. Instead, the analysis is still on-going for the moment.
This additionally agency that Vinnik will be affected to break in France for as continued as the case charcoal open. After the cessation of the case, the authorities will acknowledgment him to Greece, from area he will be extradited already again, this time to the US. Finally, aback the US case adjoin him is over, he will assuredly be beatific aback to Russia.
Defense claims Vinnik is targeted due to allegiance and computer skills
Vinnik’s aegis aggregation consists of assorted lawyers, one of whom, Zoi Konstantopoulou, said that Vinnik was actuality afflicted due to his ability apropos computers, and his nationality.
According to Konstantopoulou, his compassionate of avant-garde technology is apparent as a blackmail to the banking system. The aggregation additionally filed a complaint, claiming that Vinnik was abject and that the actual breadth of his apprehension is inhumane.
Konstantopoulou took the chat actuality as well, claiming that the Greek Minister of Justice has already absitively that Vinnik will absorb the blow of his activity actuality extradited and judged, alone to be re-extradited and re-judged assorted times over in a neverending cycle.
However, abounding accept that this is the alone way to actuate the accuracy and his guilt, as the accuse adjoin him are austere abundant for assorted nations to be acutely concerned.
He was accused of authoritative BTC-e, a crypto barter that helped abundant abyss move actionable money anonymously. Furthermore, the barter is additionally allegedly angry to the Russian aggressive intelligence hacking unit, which is additionally affiliated to manipulations of Democrats’ emails during the 2024 US elections. The case is acutely complicated, and abounding apprehend that it will booty a continued time to accept it absolutely resolved.
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