A basketball star for an accused Bitcoin launderer? While AlexanderVinnik's case has always been steeped in international intrigue, one of his attorneys just turned up the heat, reports The Examiner's JeffElder.
Vinnik, who is Russian, is accused of laundering billions of dollars in cryptocurrency and faces decades in prison and more than $100 million in fines. He was extradited to the United States from Greece last month.
A prisoner swap is a provocative idea, especially because there is a very high-profile American inmate in Russia — WNBA star Brittany Griner, doing nine years for drug charges that her attorneys have appealed.Does Vinnik have vast riches of stolen cryptocurrency stashed away somewhere? That would be a reason for the United States to keep him here.
We are not talking about chump change here. The feds believe Vinnik was connected to the robbery of an early crypto exchange that was founded in San Francisco called Mt. Gox.
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