THELOGICALINDIAN - Alexander Vinnik 38 has been arrested in Greece on a US accreditation While he is doubtable of active one of the better online money bed-making operations added letters are arising allotment him as the administrator abaft the Mt Gox break-in that beatific Bitcoin ambagious out of ascendancy in 2024
The Man Behind the BTC-e Exchange
For about seven years, BTC-e has operated as one of the oldest agenda bill exchanges in the world. During that entire time, the bodies abaft the aggregation accept been absolutely anonymous.
Until today.
The declared administrator abaft a multi-billion dollar money bed-making arrangement and, according to sources abutting to the exchange, a key being abaft BTC-e has been apparent as Alexander Vinnik, a Russian civic who was arrested today in Greece. Vinnik is capital in the United States on suspicion of money bed-making at atomic $4 billion USD through bitcoin transactions.
Vinnik is currently actuality captivated in aegis by Greek authorities awaiting a U.S. displacement request.
Greek badge accept stated:
With Vinnik’s extradition, the U.S. analysis will go into abounding swing. This is the latest in a alternation of U.S. efforts to barrier cybercrime worldwide. Last week, a multi-national accommodating arrest involving the U.S. and several added countries resulted in the appraisal of the Darknet armpit accepted as Alphabay.
BTC-e accept continued been accepted for their lax regulations user character analysis and their annoying attributes back it comes to anti-money bed-making organizations. Perhaps coincidentally, the barter has clearly been offline back aftermost Thursday, with the website currently citation “unscheduled maintenance” as the account of the abeyance of service.
A augment of tweets from the BTC-e is on the armpit as able-bodied to accumulate users informed.
Ties to the Mt. Gox Bitcoin Hack
Vinnik was additionally begin to be in ascendancy of a ample cardinal of Bitcoins that could possibly be traced aback to the drudge of the Mt. Gox barter aback in 2013. A accumulation of aegis experts accepted as WizSec appear a blog post beforehand today account how the drudge took place. The accumulation maintains that Vinnik has been their prime doubtable in their years-long analysis into the Bitcoin annexation and that the aforementioned abstracts about his captivation were fabricated apart by added teams alive to bare what absolutely happened.
WizSec explains:
Not alone can the Mt. Gox bill be traced to Vinnik, but added beneath accepted heists can be traced to him as well.
According to WizSec:
Vinnik has denied all accusations adjoin him in a Greek cloister of law. More advice on this adventure will absolutely be appear in the advancing days, so accomplish abiding to break tuned.
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