U.S. authorities file lawsuit to seize cryptocurrency assets from defunct BTC-e exchange, targeting illicit funds linked to criminal activities.

Alexander Vinnik, the former operator of crypto exchange BTC-e who pleaded guilty to money laundering in 2024, will reportedly be freed as part of a deal between the US and Russian governments.

The detention of a United States journalist in Russia has sparked a renewed push from Alexander Vinnik, the co-founder of BTC-e, for a possible “prisoner swap” deal. Alexander Vinnik, the Russian ...

Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner have been charged with the 2011 hacking of the leading cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the laundering of around 647,000 bitcoins they ...

A crypto wallet attributed to the BTC-e exchange that's been linked to the 2014 Mt. Gox hack burst into life Wednesday with its largest transaction since August 2017, sending a total of 10,000 bitcoin ...

The request to extradite BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik from France to the U.S. was called off on July 15, Vinnik's French lawyer Frederic Belot confirmed to CoinDesk. The Russian news agency Tass ...