THELOGICALINDIAN - A cloister of appeals in France has upheld the adjudication in the case adjoin BTCe abettor Alexander Vinnik His attorneys vowed to abide the acknowledged attempt adjoin Vinniks acknowledgment to Greece in adjustment to abstain a acceptable displacement to the US
Court Confirms Vinnik’s 5-year Sentence for Money Laundering
The Court of Appeals of Paris has accepted the aboriginal instance accommodation in Alexander Vinnik’s trial, Russian media reported. In backward 2020, the IT specialist, and declared cybercriminal, was sentenced to bristles years in bastille for money laundering.
Vinnik’s aegis aggregation now affairs to book a cassation address aural bristles canicule as appropriate by French law, the arch Russian business circadian Kommersant wrote, commendation Vinnik’s lawyer, Frédéric Bélot, who additionally commented:
Bélot is assertive prosecutors are not in the position to altercate that Alexander accustomed accomplishment for arguable transactions. “This is not the case,” he insisted. The advocate bidding his achievement with the bottomward of best added accuse from the verdict, and in particular, the one for extortion of money through malware.
Alexander Vinnik’s Lawyers to Fight Extradition to the US
Vinnik’s aegis will now focus its efforts to ensure that he will not be transferred aback to Greece afterwards confined his French term. His attorneys abhorrence that Greek authorities may abandon him to the United States area he is additionally accused of money laundering.
In July 2017, the Russian civic was arrested in Thessaloniki area he accustomed on a vacation with his family. Vinnik was bedfast on a U.S. warrant. American prosecutors adduce he apple-pie up to $9 billion through the abominable crypto barter BTC-e.
Frédéric Bélot said the French adjudicator argued that Vinnik’s rights would not be abandoned in Greece, an EU affiliate state, not acquainted that the Russian faces accessible displacement to the U.S. and a new balloon “in extreme, not European conditions.” Bélot considers this to be a austere blackmail to the “already annoyed concrete and brainy health” of his applicant and is planning to abide a new address in the abreast future.
Russia, area Vinnik faces accuse of “fraud in the acreage of computer information,” is additionally gluttonous his displacement but the French attorneys rejected Moscow’s request. During his apprehension in Greece, area he went on a continued ache strike, Vinnik declared he was accessible to acknowledgment and arise in cloister in his home country. At the latest audition in Pairs, attorneys were abutting by Vinnik’s mother who accustomed in May to abutment her son.
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