https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-nationals-charged-hacking-one-cryptocurrency-exchange-and-illicitly-operating-another"The Justice Department unsealed charges related to the 2011 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e.
According to court documents, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, both Russian nationals, are charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from their hack of Mt. Gox. Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to operate BTC-e from 2011 to 2017."
https://bits.media/v-ssha-obvinili-dvukh-grazhdan-rossii-v-krazhe-bolee-600000-bitkoinov-s-kriptobirzhi-mt-gox/"Recall that Ivanov, who was arrested in Novosibirsk, claims that the Russian Alexander Vinnik, who is now in an American prison, was behind the creation of BTC-e. According to Ivanov (who worked as a BTC-e technical administrator), Vinnik was responsible for the financial component of the criminal crypto exchange.
Alexander Vinnik was detained in July 2017 in Greece at the request of the US authorities. According to the US Department of Justice, Vinnik laundered billions of dollars for criminals through the BTC-e crypto exchange. After serving time in prisons in Greece and France, Vinnik was eventually extradited to the United States. On the charges, he can receive up to 50 years in prison. He does not admit his guilt. At the end of May, the media learned about the appeal of Vinnik's lawyers to exchange him for US citizens arrested in the Russian Federation. However, the exchange is unlikely, since the US Department of Justice is against his extradition to the Russian Federation."