EThe only thing that can save the Russian Alexander Vinnik is the negotiations between Russia and the United States on the exchange of prisoners, his lawyer said. He is ready to appear before a Russian court, the lawyer stressed The lawyer of the Russian Alexander Vinnik, whom the US authorities suspect of money laundering, Frederic Belo appealed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a request to start negotiations with Washington on the exchange of prisoners. This is reported by Reuters with reference to the lawyer’s letter. “Now the only thing that can save Alexander [Vinnik] is for the Russian Federation to enter into negotiations with the American authorities on the exchange of prisoners between the countries,” the letter says. The defense pointed out that the maximum sentence that can be imposed on Vinnik in the United States is 55 years in prison.”This term for Alexander is equivalent to life,” Belo said. In a conversation with TASS, the lawyer added that Vinnik is “ready to appear before a Russian court, as he counts on the justice of his country, of which he is a patriot.” RBC sent a request to the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Alexander Vinnik was detained in Greece in 2017 at the request of the United States, which suspects the Russian of creating a BTC-e crypto exchange and laundering $4 billion through it. In 2020, he was extradited to France, where he served his sentence for money laundering (he was sentenced to five years). In August of this year, the Russian was again sent to Greece for extradition to the United States.
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In addition to the United States and France, Vinnik’s extradition was sought by Russia, to whose authorities he confessed in 2018 to embezzling 750 million rubles.
On August 5, Vinnik’s family reported that he was taken by private plane to Boston, and then to San Francisco. The Russian Embassy in Washington reported that the United States notified diplomats about the arrest of the Russian.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow is outraged by the actions of the Greek authorities, who, “under pressure from the United States,” extradited Vinnik “to the punishment of the American punitive justice.”
The prosecution believes that Vinnik and the BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, which, according to Washington, he created, conducted unlicensed business, and also conspired to launder money. The Russian appeared in court in California on August 6. He was assigned to the Santa Rita Prison (California).
The prison profile says that Vinnik is not subject to bail. On August 17, Russian diplomats reported that they had managed to contact the Russian. According to them, Vinnik does not complain about his health and undergoes quarantine procedures.
“The next court hearing in the case is scheduled for September 27,” the diplomatic mission said.
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