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Russia sent a note to France because of the Vinnik case
The Russian embassy in Paris sent a note of protest to the French Foreign Ministry because of the case of the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange of BTC-E, Alexander Vinnik, extradited from Greece. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the head of the diplomatic representation of Alexei Meshkov.
Vinnika, arrested in Greece in 2017, at the request of the United States ecstardized in France on January 24, 2020.
“The Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent notes of protest with the requirements to comply with the rights of a Russian citizen, to ensure unhindered access to him by the consular department of the embassy, to allow representatives of the embassy to the court sessions, as well as to speed up the consideration of the request of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation to issue Alexander Vinnik, taking into account his civic belonging and consent to extradition to Russia,” RIA Novosti Spees RIA “Novosti”.
The US Ministry of Justice accused Vinnik of $ 4 billion fraud. According to investigators, he stole this money after the cyber attack on the MT exchange. GOX in 2014.
In October and December 2017, the Greek court granted both the US request to issue Vinnik and the Russian request.
In July 2018, at the request of the French authorities, Greece agreed to extradite Vinnik to France. There he is accused of cybercrime, the damage from which was € 130 million. Vinnik himself stated in court that he did not know why and what exactly he was accused.