The U.S. Department of Justice. (bpperry/Getty Images) DOJ charges two Russian nationals with historic Mt. Gox hack Alexey Bilyuchenko is also alleged to have conspired with a Russian man seeking to be included in a swap for an imprisoned U.S. journalist. Jun 9, 2023 By Tonya Riley
(Pixabay) New Zealand freezes $90 million connected to accused bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik Alexander Vinnik was extradited to France from Greece following an international standoff. Jun 23, 2020 By Jeff Stone
(Francis Storr/ Flickr) U.S., Russia fighting to extradite suspected Russian cybercriminal who ran $4 billion bitcoin exchange The U.S. says Alexander Vinnik ran the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e and engaged in money laundering at the scale of $4 billion. Sep 29, 2017 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
The curious case of the missing Mt. Gox bitcoin fortune While the world paid attention to the James Comey hearing, an interesting fact was unearthed: the missing Mt. Gox bitcoins may have been located. Only those in… Jun 21, 2017 By Patrick Howell O'Neill