On the day #Putin and Trump exchanged prisoners (BTC-e bro #AlexanderVinnik for teacher Marc Fogel) someone moved ~$700 million worth of bitcoin that was last moved the week after BTC-e was shut down for money laundering 8 years ago in 2017.

This is what the kids call "sus".

IMHO someone got paid off to get Vinnik out of US custody. Whether it was #Trump and/or his negotiator / crypto partner #SteveWitkoff just taking a bribe or Putin who got paid off to ask for Vinnik we may never know.

The funds are currently just parked on chain in a new wallet.

Fun fact: BTC-e is known to have been involved in laundering money for #Russia's use in #Ukraine way back in 2015/2016, in the early #Donbas battles.

* 2017 txn: https://mempool.space/tx/1824411759a534758f90d01cfa345be9616a92fe11581490037eba3e77bea9ff
* February 10th, 2025: https://mempool.space/tx/929169aa181866e0c5e6e34aa3b4f9d2c102a3bbace087f67bb98997e84114e4

#BTCe #AlexanderVinnik #corruption #RUssia #eupol #uspol #crime #VladimirPutin #NAFO #bribery

"After five years in a Russian prison, American #MarcFogel is finally back home. The #WhiteHouse and the State Department are both adamant that Fogel’s release was not part of an #exchange. But all signs point to Russian money launderer #AlexanderVinnik being released from custody in California, and the #Kremlin said there was an exchange.

...it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than #VladimirPutin.'

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/when-president-musk-speaks-donald

#Russia #US #Politics #News #Press

everyone remembers that #SteveWitkoff, the guy who negotiated the release of russian money launderer/ransomware facilitator #AlexanderVinnik, is Trump and #JustinSun’s partner in Trump’s OG crypto venture World Liberty Financial, right?

fun fact: Witkoff is also the US envoy to #Israel.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5140333-witkoff-fogel-russia-prisoner-exchange/

#MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #Trump #AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel #JustinSun #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #crypto #ransomware #infosec #WorldLibertyFi

Trump Trades Russian Bitcoin Fraudster Vinnik for Marc Fogel

https://coinpedia.org/news/trump-secures-release-of-russian-bitcoin-fraudster-alexander-vinnik-in-exchange-for-marc-fogel/

In a recent development, as per the New York Times, President Trump has facilitated a prisoner swap, where Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik was exchanged

#AlexanderVinnik #MarcFogel

#AlexanderVinnik, the OG russian crypto money launderer and ransomware facilitator who ran BTC-e and laundered billions of dollars of Russian money through crypto way before that was cool (he was arrested in 2017) got let out of prison, apparently in a prisoner swap.

BTC-e was also involved in the legendary #MtGox hack (IIRC a lot of stolen #bitcoin was laundered through BTC-e).

Suspect there's a lot of reasons Putin and the rest of the oligarchs wanted Vinnik released (and why Trump wanted to release him).

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-release-russian-alexander-vinnik-part-exchange-that-freed-fogel-new-york-2025-02-12/

#BTCe #Putin #Russia #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #ukraine #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #corruption #moneylaundering #infosec #cybersecurity #ransomware #BTCe #BTC

U.S. Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/u-s-trades-cybercriminals-to-russia-in-prisoner-swap/

#Russia'sWaronUkraine #Ne'er-Do-WellNews #VladislavKlyushin #AlexanderVinnik #EvanGershkovich #AlsuKurmasheva #MaximMarchenko #GermanMoyzhes #RomanSeleznev #VadimKrasikov #VladimirPutin #IvanErmakov #Ransomware #PaulWhelan #trickbot #Mt.Gox #BTC-e