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Alexei Bilyuchenko – a computer programmer who was allegedly involved in the fall of the ill-fated cryptocurrency exchange Wex in 2018 – says he was tricked into handing over all the exchange’s assets and tokens to fraudsters, which set off the platform’s inherent collapse.Bilyuchenko Comes Forward with a Strange StoryAt the time of writing, it is believed that the exchange lost as much as half-a-billion in assorted crypto funds.Bilyuchenko shares ties with Alexander Vinnik, the reported...

Alexander Vinnik is a former BTC-e administrator and fraudster. BTC-e exchange was laundering billions since 2015 and Vinnik’s arrest happened after the U.S. court order. Some facts point that he has connections with the Mt. Gox hack and Russian special service agents.Vinnik Lost FSB Protection in Complicated CaseGreece is preparing for the extradition of Alexander Vinnik to the United States. Local cops arrested him during rest at one of the VIP private resorts. The U.S. officials and a...

In what seems like a story out of spy movies, the Russian service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has allegedly linked about $450 million of missing crypto assets from the long moribund cryptocurrency exchange Wex with to Russia Federal Security Bureau (FSB).The BBC has for six years been investigating the collapse of BTC-e which many have believed was a front for the alleged laundering of over $4 billion worth of Bitcoins and why Alexander Vinnik is being accused of the same....