American kidnapped Russian crypto businessman Denis Dubnikov, says lawyer-
American kidnapped Russian crypto businessman Denis Dubnikov, says lawyer-
US criminal prosecution officer "kidnapped" the crypto entrepreneur Denis Dubnikov in Mexico before transferring him to the Netherlands, where he was arrested, his lawyer told Russian media. Dubnikov is suspicious of money laundering and threatens up to 20 years in prison when delivered to the United States.
FBI is accused of kidnapping Russian citizens with cryptocurrency transactions
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation ( fbi ) target = "_ blank" href = "https://news.bitcoin.com/moscow-confirms-arst-ofrussian-crypto-tetrreprenur-in-amsterdam-report-fbi/" Rel = "noopener"> arrested in Amsterdam on November 1st claimed his lawyer Arkady Bukh in conversation Sputnik. The co-founder of the crypto trading platforms Coyote Crypto and Eggchange was initially held on vacation at the airport in Mexico City and then climbed into a flight to the Netherlands, where he was arrested by Dutch authorities. The defender said:
Mexico did not let him enter. The US intelligence agencies put him on a plane in the Netherlands and sent it there after the payment of his ticket. In other words, he was actually kidnapped.
According to Bukh's description of the events, Dubnikov from Mexico was shown because the country's delivery policy is not as "ideal" as the Hollands. "You bought a ticket, which means that you actually kidnapped it and sent it to the Netherlands because the delivery from the Netherlands is actually guaranteed," the lawyer continued.
The legal representative also announced that the Russian citizen is currently in a Dutch prison and found that the defense expects its delivery to the United States. Denis Dubnikov was accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering by his crypto companies and threatens up to 20 years in prison in the USA, said Arkady Bukh and added:
Dubnikov's arrest in connection with the Ryuk Ransomware Group
According to the Sputnik report, Dubnikov's detention is one of the first arrests in the procedure in the procedure against ryuk group, which is associated with ransomware attacks to hospitals in the US authorities, assume that Dubnikov has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin, one of which was allegedly received by Ryuk-Ransomware attacks.
DENIS Dubnikov is not the first Russian citizen with a cryptocurrency business that was arrested at the request of the United States In 2017 the IT specialist Alexander Vinnik was arrested with his family in Greece during a trip. American prosecutors claim that Vinnik is a suspected operator of the infamous btc-e has washed up to 9 billion dollars over the now dissolved exchange. He was later delivered to France and sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering. In May a French dish rejected search for delivery from Moskau.
The news of the arrest of Dubnikov came after a Bloomberg report revealed that against its egg change in Europe and the United States for money laundering. The United States has recently targeted other Russian crypto platforms based on similar accusations.
In September the Ministry of Finance Crypto broker, which is active from offices in Russia and is suspected of having to have processed hundreds of millions of dollars of crypto transactions in connection with fraud, Darknet markets and ransomware players such as Ryuk. This week the Department sanctioned Chatex, which with suex bot is linked, as well as two other ransomware operators.
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