One of the largest cryptocurrency fraudsters has disappeared

Russian-born cryptocurrency fraudster Alexander Vinnik, considered one of the biggest digital criminals, has disappeared after being extradited to Greece — according to his family, Vinnik is already in the United States. As it has become known, despite the ban by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to extradite Oleksandr Vynnyk from France to Greece, the Greek authorities did so. As a result, after arriving in Athens, «the cryptocurrency fraudster disappeared,» his lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou informed law enforcement agencies. Interestingly, Vynnyk’s family reported that the Greek fraudster flew to the United States and is currently in San Francisco — it was to America that Vynnyk was planned to be extradited from Greece, but it seems he decided to do it on his own. It’s worth noting that Oleksandr Vynnyk faces up to 55 years in prison in the case of cryptocurrency fraud. The crypto fraudster was arrested in July 2017 in Greece at the request of the United States. The US authorities accuse him of laundering between $ 4 billion and $ 9 billion through the defunct BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange. The platform operated from 2011 to 2017. Its operations were suspended after Vynnyk’s arrest. Soon after, the crypto exchange was relaunched with a new name, Wex. It was taken over by a Singaporean company owned by Dmitry Vasiliev. on May 30, 2022, Vasiliev was arrested in Croatia on suspicion of fraud committed in 2018.