Moscow Court Jails Mining Firm Bitriver Founder Over $12.5M Fraud Probe
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has moved Igor Runets, founder of crypto-mining firm Bitriver, from house arrest to a pretrial detention facility for at least two months. Stricter Measures Requested Amid Witness T...
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