The United States will release the co-founder of Cristovio BTC-E Alexander Vinnik

At the same time, another defender of Vinnik Arkady Bukh told Interfax that until now an entrepreneur is in the United States. “Mr. Vinnik is still in the United States, and our work in his protection does not stop. We make all possible efforts within the framework of the legal field to achieve the best result, ”said Bukh.

According to him, recently in the Florida Federal Court, a hearing was held in the case of Vinnik. However, according to the judge’s decision, the hearing materials are classified and have no right to comment on their course and content.

“We can only take into account that professional legal protection, qualitative political analysis and corresponding lobbying mechanisms can sometimes significantly affect events,” Bukh said. He also declared that the verdict in the case of Vinnik was repeatedly transferred, and in many ways this is due to the “political panorama, in which administrative changes can play in favor of the client.”

Vinnik was arrested in Greece in July 2017 at the request of the United States government, where he was accused of washing from $ 4 billion to $ 9 billion through the already non-existent cryptomatic BTC-E. The businessman was extracted to the United States in August 2022.

On February 11, 2024, Moscow released the American teacher Mark Vogel, who served in Russia in the case of drug smuggling. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vogel was released in exchange for a Russian who would be returned to his homeland in the near future.