BTC-e.com is owned by Mt. Gox robbery’s prime suspect
BTC-e.com, one of the world’s largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges, has been out of reach for a while. Announcing that the data center was being maintained through its official Twitter account, the company made the last statement 1 day ago, and no other information has been received since then.
These insufficient statements made, BTC-e.com, known as a reliable exchange. increased suspicion on. It was claimed that there were 66 thousand Bitcoin exits from the company’s Bitcoin wallets with a value of approximately 169 million dollars.
The truth emerged later
As the hours passed, the truth began to emerge gradually. The owner of BTC-e.com was founded in 2014 at Mt.. Gox was the prime suspect in the theft of 850,000 Bitcoins.
According to police sources, this person is 38-year-old Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik. Charged with money laundering charges of at least $4 billion, Vinnik was caught today vacationing in a seaside village in Greece
The mafia’s billions of illegally earned Euros are exchanged via Bitcoin. Russian Vinnik, who was stated to have “laundered”, first went to Thessaloniki with his wife and children 10 days ago, and then settled in one of the 5-star hotels in Halkidiki.. Collaborating with the California police, the Greek police waited to intervene when Vinnik kept his phone on for a long time.. Vinnik, who had previously switched his phone on and off cautiously and for very short periods of time, was spotted and caught by the police as soon as he was idle.
Finally, BTC-e.com has recorded 7 million Bitcoin entries and 5.5 million Bitcoin exits to date.