Convicted BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik Freed in US-Russia Prisoner Swap
Alexander Vinnik, a jailed Russian IT specialist and operator of the defunct crypto exchange BTC-e, is set to return to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange that has allowed school teacher and former diplomat Marc Fogel...
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