The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on the detention of the co-owner of one of the cryptocurrency exchanges, suspected of embezzlement.
Probably, we are talking about the WEX exchange and Alexey Bilyuchenko. Last year, the former head of Wex was arrested in Warsaw after $450 million belonging to investors around the world disappeared from its accounts. Wex is the legal successor of the BTC exchange, which collapsed in 2017 after the arrest of Alexander Vinnik.
The investigation clarified that the detainee controlled the movement of large amounts in cryptocurrency and their transfers to electronic wallets.
“Taking advantage of his position, he withdrew part of the funds and embezzled them,” the ministry said.
The suspect was detained at a private airfield hotel in the Serpukhov urban district of the Moscow region. With him, he had travel suitcases with money worth more than 190 million rubles. The security forces conducted 29 searches in the premises belonging to the defendant and his alleged accomplices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yalta. In total, more than 50 million rubles, $1 million, €70 thousand, expensive computer equipment, hardware crypto wallets, luxury goods and documents were seized.
The accounts of the detainee are arrested. The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a petition to the court to seize property worth more than 2 billion rubles.
According to the deputy chairman of the ICA Arbat, Sergei Shugaev, who is involved in helping those affected by the activities of Wex, we are talking about the arrest of the administrator – the owner of WEX Alexei Bilyuchenko.
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