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In Italy, Russian Dmitry Vasilyev, associated with the Wex cryptocurrency exchange, formerly called BTC-e, was detained. The latter stopped working and restarted under a new name after the detention in Greece of Alexander Vinnik, whom the United States suspects of money laundering using bitcoins.
This was told to the BBC by a close acquaintance of Vasiliev, a major depositor of the exchange, who is familiar with Vasiliev, and another depositor who heard about the detention from Vasiliev's partners.
In connection with which a 32-year-old native of Minsk and a citizen of Russia was detained, it has not yet been possible to find out.
The BBC sent a request about the fate of Vasiliev to the Russian Embassy in Italy. "No comment," said the press attaché of the embassy Dmitry Gurin.
Requests to the police and the Ministry of Justice of Italy at the time of publication of the material remained unanswered. The press service of the financial police (Guardia di Finanza, subordinate to the Ministry of Economy) told the BBC that they did not disclose information about the detention of suspects.
What are Vasiliev and Vinnik known for?
The BTC-e exchange - the largest Russian-language platform for the sale and purchase of cryptocurrency - has been operating since 2011.
In July 2017, she suspended her activities after the arrest in Greece at the request of the United States of Russian Alexander Vinnik. The domain was btc-e.com arrested by the FBI, users lost some of the money.
US authorities believe that Vinnik was the owner of BTC-e, and that cybercriminals laundered more than $4 billion through the exchange. The BBC's interlocutors said that he was the financial director of this exchange.
The Russian himself claims that he was only a technical specialist and was neither the administrator nor the owner of BTC-e.
The real names of the beneficiaries of BTC-e are unknown.
After the suspension, the exchange restarted under the Wex.nz brand. The management of the site promised to pay off the debts of BTC-e. The operator of the new exchange was a company in Singapore, which was owned by Dmitry Vasiliev.
Vasiliev was born in Minsk, graduated from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. He used to earn money by playing poker, and in 2012 he left for China and started supplying goods to the CIS countries. Subsequently, Vasiliev became interested in cryptocurrencies. He spoke at the trial in the case of Vinnik as an expert.
What is Vasiliev doing now?
In November 2018, the Wex exchange was bought by a former fighter of the self-proclaimed DPR, Dmitry Khavchenko, nicknamed "The Sailor", the BBC wrote earlier. RBC magazine claimed that businessman Konstantin Malofeev, against whom Western sanctions were imposed in connection with the conflict in Donbass, could be behind Khavchenko. Malofeev's representative denied the businessman's connection with Moryachok and Wex.
The deal did not take place in the end. As assumed, the reason was a conflict between the new owner and the administrator, who had access to the wallets. After that, trading on the exchange stopped, the withdrawal of funds was stopped. Account holders began to prepare statements to the police against Dmitry Vasiliev.
Vasilyev showed the BBC a copy of the appeal of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Togliatti addressed to the head of the line department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at Sheremetyevo Airport, which indicates that a pre-investigation check is being carried out against Vasiliev. It was initiated by the Togliatti police at the request of one of the Wex traders, who placed money on the exchange account and could not withdraw it, follows from the document.
Also, industry media reported in October 2018 that traders wrote an appeal to President Vladimir Putin. He was handed over for verification to the Main Investigation Department of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In addition, a criminal case has been opened against Vasilyev in Kazakhstan, the media reported in April 2019. The police suspect that in September 2018, with the help of the Wex exchange, he took possession of 20 thousand dollars belonging to a resident of Almaty.
Vasilyev claims that since the date of the deal with Moryachok, he has nothing to do with Wex. Now he is promoting the Prizm cryptocurrency.
The BBC has asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, for comments, and is awaiting a response.
What about Vinnik?
Vinnik is now in a Greek prison. The United States, Russia and France are trying to extradite him.
The US authorities sent a request to the Greek authorities for his extradition, and the court granted it. But almost at the same time, Russia sent a request for the extradition of Vinnik. This request has also been granted.
In Russia, after the arrest of Vinnik, a case was opened under the article "fraud on an especially large scale". This was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office. In August 2017, a court in Moscow issued an arrest order in absentia, which became the basis for filing an extradition request. Subsequently, another criminal case was opened against Vinnik in Russia, and the Russian prosecutor's office sent another extradition request to Greece.
Later, France joined the case, where the Russian was suspected of extortion and money laundering as part of a criminal group. Paris filed a request for the extradition of Vinnik, and it was also granted.
The Greek authorities have not yet extradited Vinnik to any of these countries.
The Russian himself wants to be tried in Russia. He stated this through lawyers.
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The former head of the Wex crypto exchange, Dmitry Vasiliev, was arrested at the Warsaw airport (Poland). According to the specialized portal Forklog, he is accused of stealing several hundred million dollars.
This money, as reported by Forklog, belonged to clients of the exchange, which Vasiliev managed. A criminal case has been opened against him, he is being prepared for extradition to Kazakhstan.
As Forklog writes, the basis for the arrest of Dmitry Vasiliev was criminal case No. 187514031004390, posted in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations of Kazakhstan (ERDR). It states that Vasiliev, back in September 2018, through the Wex exchange, appropriated $20 thousand (RUB 1.451 million at the Central Bank exchange rate on September 17, 2021) belonging to a resident of Almaty (Kazakhstan).
In mid-March 2019, Vasiliev was listed in absentia as a suspect in this case. Two weeks later, he was put on the wanted list in the CIS countries.
The case states that Vasiliev violated paragraph 1, part 3, article 190 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan (large-scale fraud). Such a crime is punishable by restriction of liberty for a term of three to seven years or imprisonment for the same term, with confiscation of property, as well as a fine of ten to twenty times the amount of the stolen property and lifelong deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities.
An unnamed close acquaintance of Dmitry Vasiliev confirmed the fact of his arrest to the BBC.
What is Wex
The Wex exchange began operating in 2017 and was considered a kind of successor to the BTS-e crypto exchange, founded in 2011. BTS-e ceased to exist after the arrest of Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik. He was detained in Greece at the request of the US Department of Justice - the American authorities suspected him of laundering $4 billion through BTC.
According to the BBC, Wex is operated by the Singaporean company World Exchange Services. In July 2018, according to RBC, Vasiliev put Wex up for sale. According to the BBC, in November 2018, the new owner of the exchange was Dmitry Khavchenko, who, according to RBC, could be the entrepreneur Konstantin Malofeev.
Dmitry Vasiliev himself is a native of Minsk (Belarus), who has Russian citizenship. As of September 2021, he was 34 years old.
As Forklog writes, in July 2018, Wex stopped full withdrawal of funds allegedly due to "technical work". According to the portal, the transfer of ownership of the exchange to Dmitry Khavchenko took place in the same month, and not in November 2018. BBC experts called Khavchenko "a former Kyiv entrepreneur who fought in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists under the call sign "Sailor".
In August 2018, Wex went bankrupt and suspended its operations. "An initiative group of exchange clients calculated that the volume of losses exceeded $400 million. Vasiliev personally is credited with withdrawing $200 million," Forklog writes.
Wanted in other countries
Dmitry Vasiliev was wanted by investigators far beyond Kazakhstan. According to Forklog, he was also wanted in China and Belarus.
In this case, Vasiliev faces a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to two years, or compulsory labor for up to 480 hours, or correctional labor for up to two years, or forced labor for up to five years with or without restriction of freedom for up to one year. He may also be deprived of his freedom for up to five years with or without restriction of freedom for up to one year.
According to the BBC, taking into account all the criminal cases brought against Vasiliev, in total he could have stolen about $450 million from Wex users. According to investigators from the United States, Vasiliev could have stolen this money from exchange clients from the EU, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
More arrests, less arrests
According to the BBC, in July 2019, Vasiliev was arrested in Italy at the request of Interpol, which was initiated by law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan. He did not spend long in custody - he was released after just two weeks. Vasiliev told the BBC that a large number of errors had been found in the case against him in Kazakhstan.
The reasons why Vasiliev has not yet been caught have not been established. According to an unnamed source at Forklog, the former head of Wex remains at large "solely thanks to partners and patrons from Russian law enforcement agencies".
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The former head of the largest Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, Dmitry Vasilyev, who was previously arrested after $450 million disappeared from the company's accounts, was released from arrest in Warsaw. He personally told RBC about this and added that he then came to Russia.
"I was released on December 7, I was already in Russia," Vasilyev said.
Vasiliev's lawyer Krzysztof Brola clarified to RBC that, despite the release of his client, the court has not yet made a final decision on the case. "Yes, he is free. The Polish court banned his extradition to Kazakhstan, but the decision is not yet final," the lawyer said.
Vasilyev was arrested at the Warsaw airport in mid-August, after $ 450 million disappeared from Wex accounts. The District Court of Warsaw then arrested Vasilyev for 40 days. Kazakhstan has submitted a request to the Polish prosecutor's office for his extradition.
Vasilyev was also detained in the summer of 2019 in Italy. The official reason was not named, but the website of the police of the Basilicata region reported the detention of a 32-year-old man of "Belarusian nationality" at the request of Interpol in connection with a criminal case opened in Kazakhstan. Allegedly, he illegally took possession of a large amount. In August of the same year, the Italian authorities released Vasiliev, although criminal cases were initiated against him in Russia, Belarus and China.
The Wex cryptocurrency exchange began operating in September 2017. It had information about the customers of the BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, which ceased to exist in 2017. This happened after the arrest of its founder Alexander Vinnik, whom the United States accused of laundering from $4 billion to $9 billion through the exchange he created.
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In Croatia, one of the founders and former CEO of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange (formerly known as BTC-e), Dmitry Vasiliev, was arrested. According to the local newspaper 24sata, Vasiliev was detained on May 25 at Zagreb airport, where he flew from Barcelona.
However, this became known only now.
The arrest was carried out on the basis of an Interpol red card issued in Kazakhstan, where he is suspected of embezzling over $ 20 thousand, committed in 2018, and is demanding extradition. This is the third arrest of Vasilyev at the request of Kazakhstan. Prior to that, he was detained in the summer of 2019 in Italy, and in August 2021 in Poland. In both cases, the courts did not find sufficient grounds to expel the former head of Wex to Kazakhstan.
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A source of the Cheka-OGPU said that the 3rd Department of the 2nd Service of the Internal Security Service of the FSB, which had previously implemented the removal of Malofeev from criminal liability in a criminal case initiated on the fact of embezzlement of depositors of the notorious WEX exchange, could be directly involved in the organization of the profanation called "attempt on Konstantin Malofeev" by the FSB of the Russian Federation.
Employees of this department organized the criminal prosecution of the former administrator of this exchange - Bilyuchenko (hereinafter - Ivanov, as he changed his surname), completely turning the course of the investigation of this criminal case in the opposite direction.
The official activities of these "officers" in the service of Malofeev began with the banal theft of 20 million rubles from Ivanov during the arrest (200 million rubles were initially seized in cash in briquettes, without recounting, subsequently only 180 million rubles were entered into the protocol). The result was the persuasion of Ivanov, through the use of physical and psychological pressure in the conditions of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, to conclude a pre-trial agreement, according to which the latter transfers to Malofeev's confidant - Khavchenko (who is the only victim at the moment) the residual balance of the exchange in the amount of more than 50,000,000 US dollars, taking into account the current exchange rate.
All real depositors who suffered from the theft of funds of the WEX exchange were removed from the status of victims to witnesses, in fact, they were simply used by employees of this department of the FSB CSS to create an artificial evidence base.
Currently, the case against Ivanov is being prepared for transfer to court, which, according to the organizers, will legalize this agreement and the transfer of crypto assets to Malofeev.
In addition, employees of this department of the FSB CSS received access to a number of Ivanov's personal crypto wallets in the amount of more than $150,000,000, taking into account the current exchange rate.
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The former owner of the WEX cryptocurrency exchange, Dmitry Vasiliev, was detained in Warsaw, Poland. This was announced by Exved CEO Sergey Mendeleev in his Telegram channel.
"Dima was arrested by Interpol in Warsaw on a US warrant in connection with charges of helping to evade anti-Russian sanctions. The extradition process has been launched", he wrote.
According to Mendeleev, local lawyers work with Vasiliev, and his projects are "in the safe hands of his closest partners".
"Unfortunately, his phone is password-protected and seized (he tried to show that Kazakhstan has no claims against him). This is all the information so far", the CEO of Extended added.
This was told to the BBC by a close acquaintance of Vasiliev, a major depositor of the exchange, who is familiar with Vasiliev, and another depositor who heard about the detention from Vasiliev's partners.
In connection with which a 32-year-old native of Minsk and a citizen of Russia was detained, it has not yet been possible to find out.
The BBC sent a request about the fate of Vasiliev to the Russian Embassy in Italy. "No comment," said the press attaché of the embassy Dmitry Gurin.
Requests to the police and the Ministry of Justice of Italy at the time of publication of the material remained unanswered. The press service of the financial police (Guardia di Finanza, subordinate to the Ministry of Economy) told the BBC that they did not disclose information about the detention of suspects.
What are Vasiliev and Vinnik known for?
The BTC-e exchange - the largest Russian-language platform for the sale and purchase of cryptocurrency - has been operating since 2011.
In July 2017, she suspended her activities after the arrest in Greece at the request of the United States of Russian Alexander Vinnik. The domain was btc-e.com arrested by the FBI, users lost some of the money.
US authorities believe that Vinnik was the owner of BTC-e, and that cybercriminals laundered more than $4 billion through the exchange. The BBC's interlocutors said that he was the financial director of this exchange.
The Russian himself claims that he was only a technical specialist and was neither the administrator nor the owner of BTC-e.
The real names of the beneficiaries of BTC-e are unknown.
After the suspension, the exchange restarted under the Wex.nz brand. The management of the site promised to pay off the debts of BTC-e. The operator of the new exchange was a company in Singapore, which was owned by Dmitry Vasiliev.
Vasiliev was born in Minsk, graduated from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. He used to earn money by playing poker, and in 2012 he left for China and started supplying goods to the CIS countries. Subsequently, Vasiliev became interested in cryptocurrencies. He spoke at the trial in the case of Vinnik as an expert.
What is Vasiliev doing now?
In November 2018, the Wex exchange was bought by a former fighter of the self-proclaimed DPR, Dmitry Khavchenko, nicknamed "The Sailor", the BBC wrote earlier. RBC magazine claimed that businessman Konstantin Malofeev, against whom Western sanctions were imposed in connection with the conflict in Donbass, could be behind Khavchenko. Malofeev's representative denied the businessman's connection with Moryachok and Wex.
The deal did not take place in the end. As assumed, the reason was a conflict between the new owner and the administrator, who had access to the wallets. After that, trading on the exchange stopped, the withdrawal of funds was stopped. Account holders began to prepare statements to the police against Dmitry Vasiliev.
Vasilyev showed the BBC a copy of the appeal of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Togliatti addressed to the head of the line department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at Sheremetyevo Airport, which indicates that a pre-investigation check is being carried out against Vasiliev. It was initiated by the Togliatti police at the request of one of the Wex traders, who placed money on the exchange account and could not withdraw it, follows from the document.
Also, industry media reported in October 2018 that traders wrote an appeal to President Vladimir Putin. He was handed over for verification to the Main Investigation Department of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In addition, a criminal case has been opened against Vasilyev in Kazakhstan, the media reported in April 2019. The police suspect that in September 2018, with the help of the Wex exchange, he took possession of 20 thousand dollars belonging to a resident of Almaty.
Vasilyev claims that since the date of the deal with Moryachok, he has nothing to do with Wex. Now he is promoting the Prizm cryptocurrency.
The BBC has asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, for comments, and is awaiting a response.
What about Vinnik?
Vinnik is now in a Greek prison. The United States, Russia and France are trying to extradite him.
The US authorities sent a request to the Greek authorities for his extradition, and the court granted it. But almost at the same time, Russia sent a request for the extradition of Vinnik. This request has also been granted.
In Russia, after the arrest of Vinnik, a case was opened under the article "fraud on an especially large scale". This was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office. In August 2017, a court in Moscow issued an arrest order in absentia, which became the basis for filing an extradition request. Subsequently, another criminal case was opened against Vinnik in Russia, and the Russian prosecutor's office sent another extradition request to Greece.
Later, France joined the case, where the Russian was suspected of extortion and money laundering as part of a criminal group. Paris filed a request for the extradition of Vinnik, and it was also granted.
The Greek authorities have not yet extradited Vinnik to any of these countries.
The Russian himself wants to be tried in Russia. He stated this through lawyers.
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The former head of the Wex crypto exchange, Dmitry Vasiliev, was arrested at the Warsaw airport (Poland). According to the specialized portal Forklog, he is accused of stealing several hundred million dollars.
This money, as reported by Forklog, belonged to clients of the exchange, which Vasiliev managed. A criminal case has been opened against him, he is being prepared for extradition to Kazakhstan.
As Forklog writes, the basis for the arrest of Dmitry Vasiliev was criminal case No. 187514031004390, posted in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations of Kazakhstan (ERDR). It states that Vasiliev, back in September 2018, through the Wex exchange, appropriated $20 thousand (RUB 1.451 million at the Central Bank exchange rate on September 17, 2021) belonging to a resident of Almaty (Kazakhstan).
In mid-March 2019, Vasiliev was listed in absentia as a suspect in this case. Two weeks later, he was put on the wanted list in the CIS countries.
The case states that Vasiliev violated paragraph 1, part 3, article 190 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan (large-scale fraud). Such a crime is punishable by restriction of liberty for a term of three to seven years or imprisonment for the same term, with confiscation of property, as well as a fine of ten to twenty times the amount of the stolen property and lifelong deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities.
An unnamed close acquaintance of Dmitry Vasiliev confirmed the fact of his arrest to the BBC.
What is Wex
The Wex exchange began operating in 2017 and was considered a kind of successor to the BTS-e crypto exchange, founded in 2011. BTS-e ceased to exist after the arrest of Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik. He was detained in Greece at the request of the US Department of Justice - the American authorities suspected him of laundering $4 billion through BTC.
According to the BBC, Wex is operated by the Singaporean company World Exchange Services. In July 2018, according to RBC, Vasiliev put Wex up for sale. According to the BBC, in November 2018, the new owner of the exchange was Dmitry Khavchenko, who, according to RBC, could be the entrepreneur Konstantin Malofeev.
Dmitry Vasiliev himself is a native of Minsk (Belarus), who has Russian citizenship. As of September 2021, he was 34 years old.
As Forklog writes, in July 2018, Wex stopped full withdrawal of funds allegedly due to "technical work". According to the portal, the transfer of ownership of the exchange to Dmitry Khavchenko took place in the same month, and not in November 2018. BBC experts called Khavchenko "a former Kyiv entrepreneur who fought in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists under the call sign "Sailor".
In August 2018, Wex went bankrupt and suspended its operations. "An initiative group of exchange clients calculated that the volume of losses exceeded $400 million. Vasiliev personally is credited with withdrawing $200 million," Forklog writes.
Wanted in other countries
Dmitry Vasiliev was wanted by investigators far beyond Kazakhstan. According to Forklog, he was also wanted in China and Belarus.
In this case, Vasiliev faces a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to two years, or compulsory labor for up to 480 hours, or correctional labor for up to two years, or forced labor for up to five years with or without restriction of freedom for up to one year. He may also be deprived of his freedom for up to five years with or without restriction of freedom for up to one year.
According to the BBC, taking into account all the criminal cases brought against Vasiliev, in total he could have stolen about $450 million from Wex users. According to investigators from the United States, Vasiliev could have stolen this money from exchange clients from the EU, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
More arrests, less arrests
According to the BBC, in July 2019, Vasiliev was arrested in Italy at the request of Interpol, which was initiated by law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan. He did not spend long in custody - he was released after just two weeks. Vasiliev told the BBC that a large number of errors had been found in the case against him in Kazakhstan.
The reasons why Vasiliev has not yet been caught have not been established. According to an unnamed source at Forklog, the former head of Wex remains at large "solely thanks to partners and patrons from Russian law enforcement agencies".
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The former head of the largest Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, Dmitry Vasilyev, who was previously arrested after $450 million disappeared from the company's accounts, was released from arrest in Warsaw. He personally told RBC about this and added that he then came to Russia.
"I was released on December 7, I was already in Russia," Vasilyev said.
Vasiliev's lawyer Krzysztof Brola clarified to RBC that, despite the release of his client, the court has not yet made a final decision on the case. "Yes, he is free. The Polish court banned his extradition to Kazakhstan, but the decision is not yet final," the lawyer said.
Vasilyev was arrested at the Warsaw airport in mid-August, after $ 450 million disappeared from Wex accounts. The District Court of Warsaw then arrested Vasilyev for 40 days. Kazakhstan has submitted a request to the Polish prosecutor's office for his extradition.
Vasilyev was also detained in the summer of 2019 in Italy. The official reason was not named, but the website of the police of the Basilicata region reported the detention of a 32-year-old man of "Belarusian nationality" at the request of Interpol in connection with a criminal case opened in Kazakhstan. Allegedly, he illegally took possession of a large amount. In August of the same year, the Italian authorities released Vasiliev, although criminal cases were initiated against him in Russia, Belarus and China.
The Wex cryptocurrency exchange began operating in September 2017. It had information about the customers of the BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, which ceased to exist in 2017. This happened after the arrest of its founder Alexander Vinnik, whom the United States accused of laundering from $4 billion to $9 billion through the exchange he created.
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In Croatia, one of the founders and former CEO of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange (formerly known as BTC-e), Dmitry Vasiliev, was arrested. According to the local newspaper 24sata, Vasiliev was detained on May 25 at Zagreb airport, where he flew from Barcelona.
However, this became known only now.
The arrest was carried out on the basis of an Interpol red card issued in Kazakhstan, where he is suspected of embezzling over $ 20 thousand, committed in 2018, and is demanding extradition. This is the third arrest of Vasilyev at the request of Kazakhstan. Prior to that, he was detained in the summer of 2019 in Italy, and in August 2021 in Poland. In both cases, the courts did not find sufficient grounds to expel the former head of Wex to Kazakhstan.
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A source of the Cheka-OGPU said that the 3rd Department of the 2nd Service of the Internal Security Service of the FSB, which had previously implemented the removal of Malofeev from criminal liability in a criminal case initiated on the fact of embezzlement of depositors of the notorious WEX exchange, could be directly involved in the organization of the profanation called "attempt on Konstantin Malofeev" by the FSB of the Russian Federation.
Employees of this department organized the criminal prosecution of the former administrator of this exchange - Bilyuchenko (hereinafter - Ivanov, as he changed his surname), completely turning the course of the investigation of this criminal case in the opposite direction.
The official activities of these "officers" in the service of Malofeev began with the banal theft of 20 million rubles from Ivanov during the arrest (200 million rubles were initially seized in cash in briquettes, without recounting, subsequently only 180 million rubles were entered into the protocol). The result was the persuasion of Ivanov, through the use of physical and psychological pressure in the conditions of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, to conclude a pre-trial agreement, according to which the latter transfers to Malofeev's confidant - Khavchenko (who is the only victim at the moment) the residual balance of the exchange in the amount of more than 50,000,000 US dollars, taking into account the current exchange rate.
All real depositors who suffered from the theft of funds of the WEX exchange were removed from the status of victims to witnesses, in fact, they were simply used by employees of this department of the FSB CSS to create an artificial evidence base.
Currently, the case against Ivanov is being prepared for transfer to court, which, according to the organizers, will legalize this agreement and the transfer of crypto assets to Malofeev.
In addition, employees of this department of the FSB CSS received access to a number of Ivanov's personal crypto wallets in the amount of more than $150,000,000, taking into account the current exchange rate.
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The former owner of the WEX cryptocurrency exchange, Dmitry Vasiliev, was detained in Warsaw, Poland. This was announced by Exved CEO Sergey Mendeleev in his Telegram channel.
"Dima was arrested by Interpol in Warsaw on a US warrant in connection with charges of helping to evade anti-Russian sanctions. The extradition process has been launched", he wrote.
According to Mendeleev, local lawyers work with Vasiliev, and his projects are "in the safe hands of his closest partners".
"Unfortunately, his phone is password-protected and seized (he tried to show that Kazakhstan has no claims against him). This is all the information so far", the CEO of Extended added.
