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Since July 2017 a legal thriller takes place in northern Greece, in Thessaloniki.
It is like a James Bond film. With American and Russian intelligent agents, billions of dollars, criminal organizations and high tech Daedalus transactions of money and secret services.
The name of the “bad guy” is Alexander Vinik, a 38 years Old Russian citizen aka “Mr. or King of Bitcoin”, who was captured by the Greek police last July in a hotel in Chalkidiki, a summer resort near to the city of Thessaloniki.
"We were all family at the beach when 20 people arrived. They just wore t-shirts and bermuda, not police uniforms. Two of them showed us their identity and in a few seconds Alexander had handcuffed", said Vinik's wife Aleksandra Shefchenka in the Greek newspaper “KATHIMERINI" (the photo is from the website of KATHMERINI).
Vinik is accused by the Americans of "spoiling" profits from criminal organizations through a platform for exchanging digital currencies. The US Department of Justice had estimated that in the six-year period via the BTC-e platform, 4 billion dollars were legalized and therefore they issued an international arrest warrant against him. This platform is alleged to have been used by cybercriminals, corrupt federal agents, personal hackers, and drug dealers to "flush" their revenue as a money laundry machine.
Judicial documents also indicate that the platform is involved in one of the largest fraudsters of digital files (known as Ransomware) with CryptoWall malware.
The indictment states that the BTC-e platform was established in 2011 and until recently has provided services to 700,000 users worldwide. Its activities seem to have increased after the closure of other exchange offices such as the Liberty Reserve (based on Costa Rica and its co-founder was sentenced in the USA in 2016 for money laundering) and Mt. Gox (which went bankrupt in 2014).
Beyond the Americans, the release of Vinik is also asked by the Russians. They accused him that he are involved in another, minor, scam of merchandise, worth about 10,000 euros. It is for sure a chess game for intelligent services to get him.
The Thessaloniki Court of Appeals has accepted the request for the release of Alexander Vinik in the United States, on Wednesday 04.10.2017 but he has another chance to stay in Greece after the decision of the Highest Supreme Court in Athens.
The Thessaloniki Court has decided also to hand over to the US authorities the computers, tablets, mobile phones, etc. of Vinik, confiscated at the time of his arrest.
I will keep you informed about the end of the case...stay tuned!
"I will keep you informed about the end of the case..."
The end of the case may be FAR in the future. You'd better stay healthy!
Hahahaha..I mean the legal end of the case here in Greece, if he will release in USA or not, just wait a few months, we will see...Stay healthy too @onceuponatime!
Can't wait thanks for sharing this
Wow, what a piece of thriller or suspense, really! It could easily be made into a film of some sort and it would be surprising at all.This is an excellent piece of information and glad to hear about this. Thanks a lot for its quality, clarity and exciting news.
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
To be continued.... @eric-boucher! Thanks for the comment!
He has one of the highest profile lawyers in Greece, Alexandros Lykourezos, but the Greek government will do whatever is being told, have no doubt about that.
Indeed....
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Wow, what a great suspense. It put me at end of the seat. It had failed all thriller movies in Hollywood. Someone should create a movie based on this info,; it would be amazing. Thanks #onceuponatime for sharing distinctive post.
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This is incredible. 4 billion dollars is no small number for sure. I mean 4 BILLION!!!
There is really so much we don't know about this story. Will be interesting once more information eventually comes out
This is an excellent piece of information and glad to hear about this. Thanks a lot for its quality, clarity and exciting news.
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Thanks for sharing!
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