Poland confirms the arrest of the former WEX Exchange Manager in Warsaw-

reports on the detention of Dmitry Vasiliev, ex-boss of the bankruptcy cryptocurrency exchange WEX, were confirmed by the authorities in Poland. The former manager of the platform, which is supposedly involved in the theft of funds worth several million dollars, threatens to deliver to Kazakhstan.

public prosecutor confirms that Vasiliev is in custody in Poland

dmitry Vasiliev, which once headed the largest Russian crypto exchange, was arrested at the Warsaw Airport in early August, but the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza confirmed the arrest to the Russian news agency Ria Novosti.

The 34-year-old Russian citizen led the now dissolved Wex, A successor of the infamous btc-e exchange before it was verkauft an einen ukrainischen Geschäftsmann, der Ende 2018 zum Separatistenkämpfer wurde, Dmitry Havchenko. The trading platform for digital assets stopped paying at the beginning of the year and finally went bankrupt.

While Vasiliev was officially owned by the WEX operator based in Singapore, the BBC Russian Service previously announced that Wex Aleksey Bileuchenko, a partner of the alleged BTC e-administrator Alexander Vinnik. The Russian IT specialist, accused To have washed btc-e, was last December for five years in prison, what rejected vinniks delivery to Russia.

Polish police arrested WEX with the help of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization. The official of the Warsaw public prosecutor found that a "request to deliver Dmitri V von Kazakhstan". Vasiliev has been sought in the Central Asian country since 2019 for allegations of fraud in connection with the stock exchange. Poland still has to decide whether it will deliver it.

The crypto entrepreneur has been in custody since August 11th when the Polish authorities initially arrested him for 40 days. Dmitry Vasiliev is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of assets worth $ 450 million by citizens of the EU member states and other countries around the world.

On Monday someone has the transfer of 9.916. Ordered ETH , worth over 30 million US dollar, from a wallet from wex, crypto-messages agency forklog registered . The Transaction Outstanding was after 100. initiated eth were withdrawn from the wallet on September 15th. The publication found that this was the first money movement in the wallet in the past three years.