Vinnik managed to obtain funds after a hacker attack on the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2014. Then 850 thousand bitcoins were stolen, of which 306 thousand were withdrawn to electronic wallets associated with BTC-e.
After Alexander Vinnik started having problems with the law in 2017, his partner and exchange administrator with the nickname admin, Alexey Bilyuchenko, leaked the keys to most of the crypto wallets, which contained 65 thousand bitcoins (at the then exchange rate – 650 million). dollars, then over 1 billion dollars).
None other than Konstantin Malofeev extracted the data from Bilyuchenko and organized the withdrawal of money. To do this, he attracted “people from the FSB.” Of these people, Anton Nemkin is known today, who was indeed an officer of the 1st FSB service. “People from the FSB” pretended to detain Bilyuchenko, kept him under guard for several days, even organized an interrogation on Kuznetsky Most, and in the end they achieved what they wanted – he handed over the keys.
“Russian crypto exchange WEX” – move two.
The founders of WEX were: Alexander Borodai (former leader of the DPR, former PR man and eternal accomplice of Malofeev), Dmitry Khavchenko, nicknamed “Sailor” (also a prominent leader of the DPR), resident of the High Technologies Park of Belarus Dmitry Vasiliev (IT specialist of Malofeev).
At the same time, in Vladivostok, Malofeev’s son Kirill registered Vladex LLC. On this site, Malofeev Sr. and his current political ally and then presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev planned to open the National Russian Crypto Exchange. They were waiting for the go-ahead from the very top, and Glazyev lobbied for it. He wrote notes to the president in support of the exchange, and branded everyone who did not share his plans as traitors to Russia and enemies of the national economy. Glazyev even blurted out at the economic forum in Vladivostok that Valdex was created almost on behalf of the president. There, on the forum, Anton Nemkin also appeared next to Glazyev.
The situation with the National Exchange did not work out: despite all the efforts of Glazyev, Putin did not support the project, and the Wex exchange collapsed loudly and with a scandal – with it the bulk of the cryptocurrency that remained in clients’ accounts disappeared. And this is Malofeev’s third move.
The money stolen from users of now two exchanges had to be withdrawn. Malofeev was helped in this by Timofey Musatov and Natalya Kasperskaya, owners of Neklis Bank. Apparently, this was not the first such experience for the bank – in 2019, for numerous violations, the Central Bank revoked Neklis’ license, and three criminal cases were opened.
Natalya Kasperskaya also allocated money for Vinnik’s defense; she paid 248 million rubles to lawyer Timofey Musatov. And then lawyer Musatov died mysteriously. According to the official version, he slipped on the stairs in a pub in the south-west of Moscow (six months after receiving the money), hit his head and soon died.
Timofey Musatov was found dead at home. The incident was written off as an accident. But now all three criminal cases related to Malofeev’s scams have been attributed to Musatov.
Of course, a person like Vinnik cannot be left in the USA for a long time. He is the No. 1 contender for the exchange along with Viktor Bout.
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