Ex-boss of Wex Crypto Exchange reports in Poland, there is a risk of delivery to Kazakhstan-

Dmitry Vasiliev, former managing director of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, was arrested in Warsaw, reported the Polish press. Wassiljew is searched for in Kazakhstan, where he is accused of being accused in connection with the now no longer existing trading platform, the successor to the notorious BTC-e exchange.

former WEX manager in Polish prison as a public prosecutor's office examines the application for delivery

The former owner and CEO of Wex Dmitry Vasiliev was arrested on August 11th at Warsaw Airport, the leading Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza unveiled this week. According to the sources cited by the publication, the 34-year-old born is detained for 40 days.

The Polish public prosecutor is now considering delivery to Kazakhstan. The authorities of the Central Asian Land have been looking for ongoing allegations for several years as part of the ongoing investigations via Interpol according to Vasiliev.

in his test report The Russian BBC police said that the Polish police had refused to comment on the information about the case. However, rumors about the detention of Vasiliev have been circulating among the clients of Wex since August, and a close acquaintance of him has confirmed that it is actually in Polish prison.

This is not the first arrest of Dmitry Vasiliev in Europe. He was detained in Italy two years ago, but was finally able to return to the Russian Federation, where he lived permanently in Saint Petersburg. The Italian authorities released him after several weeks of imprisonment, citing defects in his delivery.

dmitry Vasilievs BTC-E connection

Wex, once the largest crypto trade platform in Russian-speaking countries, was in autumn 2017 as a successor from Btc-e . The notorious stock exchange was closed at the beginning of the year after the arrest of one of its alleged operators. Alexander Vinnik , in Greece. Vinnik is accused by the United States that BTC-E has washed up to $ 9 billion. He was sentenced to five years in December.

According to the Russian economic news portal RBC, WEX had reached daily turnover of $ 80 million before it went offline. In 2018, his operator, the company based in Singapore, was World Exchange Services, Sell to dmitry Havchenko, one Entrepreneurs from Kyiv, who became a separatist fighter in eastern Ukraine. While Dmitry Vasiliev was the company's official owner, BBC claims that Wex actually belonged to Aleksey Bilyuchenko, Vinnik's partner at BTC-E.

After months of use and standstill, in which changed its web address several times in summer 2018 and later went into bankruptcy. According to estimates of a group of WEX users cited by Forklog, the total losses exceed $ 400 million, with Vasiliev being suspected of withdrawing $ 200 million. He is sought in Kazakhstan after a dealer from Almaty has contacted the local law enforcement agencies and accused the Belarusian of having stolen funds worth $ 20,000.

loud test report , 100 eth was recently withdrawn from a wallet from WEX with a remaining credit of over 9.900 eth . The digital currency has been transferred to Binance, the first transaction of such transaction in the past three years. In 2018, the world's leading crypto exchange blocked an account, the 93,000. Had received eth from Wallets that are connected to Wex.

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