In Novosibirsk they will be judged by the appropriate 3 billion rubles of the Wex Exchange Administrator – Bits Media

In Novosibirsk, the case of assignment of digital assets in the amount will be considered 3 billion rubles by the system administrator of the Singapore cryptocurrency exchange of WEX Alexei Ivanov.

In Russia, this will be the first criminal case of assigning cryptocurrency. According to consequences, 43-Summer Administrator of the Wex Exchange Alexei Ivanov stole digital assets in the amount 3 billion rubles in 2018 year. To do this, he took advantage of the privileges of the administrator and blocked access to the site as the owner, So are users. After that, he transferred funds from the wallet wallets to his addresses.

"IN 2018 a year he got the opportunity for sole access and disposal of cryptocurrency, excluded access to it the owner of the exchange, its representatives and users, Then he assigned the digital currency entrusted to him (cryptocurrency) different names in the amount, equivalent 3 167 433 649 rubles at the rate for 24.10.2018, which is a particularly large size ", - specified in court.

Russian is accused of a crime in terms of 4 Articles 160 UK RF (“Assignment, That is, the theft of someone else's property, entrusted to the perpetrator, committed on an especially large scale "). Ivanov faces imprisonment for a period 10 years old, as well as a fine before 1 million rubles. but, most likely, The verdict will be much softer - the accused concluded a pre -trial agreement and completely returned the stolen funds.

Recall, that in November last year, the unknown led out from the wallet, which is associated with the WEX exchange, 10 000 The government of Bulgaria demanded a report for the withdrawn cryptocurrency.