The court of paris 18 May consider the appeal in the case of Alexander Vinnik – Bits Media

The court of paris 18 May will begin consideration of the appeal in the case of Russian Alexander Vinnik, accused of laundering from $4 billion to $9 billion through the cryptocurrency exchange of BTC-E and a convict for five years in prison.

Recall, that Vinnik was arrested in Greece in July 2017 of the year. He is accused of laundering money and creating Locky software for hacker attacks with the aim of extorting. The US prosecutor's office claims, that Vinnik is a co-founder closed simultaneously with his arrest BTC-E exchange. The defendant denies all charges and declares, that he worked with BTC-E only as a client and a consultant.

In January 2020 Years of Vinnika were forcibly taken from the Greek hospital and extradited to France, Despite the serious state of his health. In December last year, the court removed part of the charges from Vinnik, Having sentenced him to five years in prison and a fine of € 100 000.

Vinnik's defense appealed by the sentence of the Parisian court. The date of consideration of the appeal is assigned to 18 May, And the hearings will last before 8 june. French lawyer Vinnik, Frederik White, demanded to involve several more experts in the field of information technology to the process. They will study materials, submitted by the US Federal Bureau (FBI). We are talking about copies of the hard disk of the Mac Pro computer and data from a mobile phone. Vinnik is considered the owner of these items, And without a thorough examination.

Bel said, that experts, involved in the investigation, conducted an “accelerated” investigation due to lack of time and means. According to him, The investigation and protection did not have access to original data. Naturally, This state of affairs does not suit the protection of Vinnik, Therefore, during the next hearings, his lawyers intend to submit the results of their own examination.

“When I was arrested almost four years ago, it turned my whole life turned over. And for you this is just another criminal case ", – Vinnik said in his appeal to the judge.

The prosecutor's office also filed an oncoming appeal for the court verdict, including points, on which the charges were removed from Vinnik. Instead of five years in prison, The prosecutor demands to condemn Vinnik to 10 years old.