France Rejects Russian Request to Extradite BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik
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France Rejects Russian Request to Extradite BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik

THELOGICALINDIAN - Judicial authorities in France accept banned to admission the displacement appeal filed by Russia for Alexander Vinnik According to the Russian Ombudsman Vinnik is now accessible to alpha a new ache bang admitting his bloom breakable afterwards spending about four years in apprehension

Court Case Against Vinnik Continues in France

The abettor of the abominable BTC-e crypto barter was afresh sentenced to bristles years in bastille and fined €100,000. Quoted by RIA Novosti, Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova said that Moscow’s appeal to abandon Alexander Vinnik has not been accepted on Thursday and that the application of the case continues.

In December 2020, the Paris Correctional Court begin Vinnik accusable of money bed-making but alone extortion accuse adjoin him as able-bodied as those accompanying to his declared captivation with the Locky ransomware.

France Rejects Russian Request to Extradite BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik

Alexander Vinnik was arrested while on vacation with his ancestors in Greece, in July 2024. He was bedfast on a accreditation from the U.S. area he is accused of bed-making up to $9 billion through the now-defunct cryptocurrency barter BTC-e.

The Russian IT specialist spent 30 months in Greek aegis after accuse actuality filed, for which he went on a hunger strike that lasted about three months. He is now accessible to activate a new strike, Moskalkova revealed, quoted by TASS.

Alexander Vinnik’s Health Deteriorates

Referring to accounts from his aegis and Russia’s consular account in France, the Ombudsman told Russian media that admitting Vinnik’s “depressed health,” he is afresh accessible to alpha agitation with a ache strike. The animal rights abettor added that she was not acquainted of any suicide attempts by Vinnik but quoted his advocate anecdotic the prisoner’s cerebral accompaniment as actual poor. Moskalkova stated:

Tatyana Moskalkova additionally bidding affliction that “the apple which is calling for good, mercy, and justice, has heard neither the address of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Russian Federation, nor the calls from the Russian Foreign Ministry, the General Prosecutor’s Office, and added authorities.”

Vinnik’s case has become a antecedent of all-embracing astriction with Russia, France, and the United States accompanying gluttonous his extradition. In December 2019, the Greek abbot of amends Kostas Tsiaras absitively to duke the Russian aborigine over to France first, and again to the USA and Russia.

Alexander Vinnik faces bent accuse in his home country too. Russian prosecutors accept accused him of burglary added than 600,000 rubles (over $8,000) and “fraud in the acreage of computer information” for an estimated 750 actor rubles (around $10 million). During his apprehension in Greece, the Russian civic declared he was accessible to acknowledgment to the Russian Federation and arise afore a Russian court.

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