THELOGICALINDIAN - BTCe has fabricated an advertisement on Bitcointalk In the column BTCe provides added advice about what is currently accident with the barter from their point of view
Following the arrest of Alexander Vinnik, a 38-year-old Russian man that is accused of money laundering, the BTC-e barter area has been taken bottomward by the FBI, with assorted letters abutting the two and anecdotic Vinnik as a “key being abaft the platform” that acclimated it to acquit bill acclimated by criminals.
The Russian exchange, which has kept quiet over the aftermost few days, acquaint an announcement today on Bitcointalk, a accepted Bitcoin and cryptocurrency forum. In the post, BTC-e provides added advice about what is currently accident with the barter from their point of view. The (translated) post reads:
The column additionally references a approaching advertisement which will amend audience on the accompaniment of account and on how they can retrieve their funds if the account is not restored. The column reads:
With the Mt. Gox disaster still in mind, absent funds are currently the capital affair on everyone’s minds. Some users accept alike created a petition on Change.org advancement the Department of Justice to acknowledgment the bill to the clients. The petition, which has almost 2800 signatures, reads:
In the announcement, BTC-e additionally talks briefly about Alexander Vinnik, advertence that he is not and never was an agent of BTC-e nor the arch of the service.
Alexander Vinnik was arrested in Greece aftermost anniversary beneath suspicions of active a money bed-making operation. According to several reports, the Russian man is said to be an abettor of the BTC-e exchange, application the belvedere to laundry Bitcoins for “people complex in crimes alignment from computer hacking to biologic trafficking”.
Although it is not bright if Vinnik does accept a affiliation to BTC-e, the barter has been accepted to be a prime choice for cyber abyss attractive to banknote out their Bitcoins, a action fabricated accessible due to the abridgement of KYC/AML policies. It is accessible that BTC-e will accommodate added capacity about Alexander Vinnik and his affiliation to the barter in its approaching update.
What are your thoughts? Is Alexander Vinnik affiliated to BTC-e? Will users anytime balance their funds? Let us apperceive in the animadversion section.
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