Alleged lawyer of the Bitcoin laundry is looking for a prisoner exchange with Russia
Alleged lawyer of the Bitcoin laundry is looking for a prisoner exchange with Russia
- Vinnik's psychiatrist said he had a partial memory loss due to the stress of isolation
- he threatens 55 years in prison, which according to the lawyer of a lifelong prison sentence
Alexander Vinnik, the alleged Bitcoin laund of laundry, who recently had been delivered to the USA after more than five years of litigation, tries to find a way back to Russia.
his French lawyer Frédéric Bélot asked Russia to mediate in a deal with the USA that provides for Vinnik's release as part of a prisoner exchange.
Bélot wrote in a letter viewed by Blockworks that "the only thing that can save Alexander", the Russian negotiations with the United States. The letter addressed to Foreign Minister Sergei Lawrov describes the path of his client from custody to the extradition.
Reuters reported the message For the first time on Tuesday.
bélot's application comes about a month after US Secretary of State Anthony said that Washington had a " remarkable offer "to relieve the US citizens held there. Blinken's offer referred to WNBA star Brittney Griner and the former US marine Paul Whelan, who are arrested in Moscow Separated fees .
Chief Don Fort from the Criminal Police of the Internal Revenue Service said that Vinnik stole "identities, made drug trafficking easier, helping to wash criminal income around the world".
Then he was sent back shortly after Athens, from where he was delivered to the USA last month. At that time, the lawyer announced Blockworks in an email that he would continue to defend Vinnik next to an American lawyer.
Vinnik denied to have washed Bitcoin
Vinnik has never accepted the accusations that are charged to him, and his lawyer says that he continues to deny all the charges against him.
In particular, the lawyer's letter states that Vinnik's detention period was stressful in France - psychiatrists found that he was confronted with an episodic loss of memory. The lawyer also explained that Vinnik's wife Alexandra died in November 2020 at the age of 34 after she had undergone six operations because of an unspecified illness.Vinnik had asked the French authorities to travel to Russia to the funeral of his wife, but that was "decidedly rejected," said the lawyer.
The letter continues that Vinnik's children have stopped asking when he will return home because the separation was extensive.
he threatens a maximum penalty of 55 years because of the operation of a non -licensed financial service business, the conspiracy to commit money laundering and participation in illegal money transactions. According to reports, Bélot described the prison sentence as synonymous with a lifelong prison sentence.
The Russian Foreign Ministry did not answer the request from Blockworks until the editorial deadline.
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