As the relations between the U.S. and Russia remain stringent due to the latter country’s invasion of Ukraine, a lawyer for a Russian citizen accused of laundering more than USD 4bn worth of crypto has called on the Kremlin to facilitate a prisoner exchange involving his client with Washington.
In a letter obtained by Reuters, a lawyer for Alexander Vinnik, a man extradited last August to the U.S. to face money laundering charges, requested Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to set up a prisoner exchange including his client.
“Now the only thing that can save Alexander is for the Russian Federation to enter into negotiations with the American authorities within the framework of the exchange of prisoners between the countries mentioned,” lawyer Frederic Belot said in the letter.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Justice says that according “to the indictment, Vinnik and his co-conspirators allegedly owned, operated, and administrated BTC-e, a significant cybercrime and...
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