@calavera see also: the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin started moving on chain within a week of #AlexanderVinnik being released from US custody back to #Russia.
this is *exactly* the situation bitcoin was designed for […]
#KGB #TornadoCash #Binance #Tether #WorldLibertyFinancial #LesserEvil #FBI #MoneyLaundering #Lutnick #Witkoff #UAE #Bitcoin #NayibBukele #SanctionsEvasion #crypto #broligarchs #AlexanderVinnik #SEC #JustinSun #ChangpengZhao #RossUlbricht #CryptoBros #Russia #DavidSacks #KimDotcom #Libertarian
How ‘strange’ that the #libertarianism of the #PayPal Mafia and their ilk — #ElonMusk, Crypto & #AI czar #DavidSacks, and #PeterThiel — extends to people like #KimDotcom, #RossUlbricht, and #AlexanderVinnik, but never those denied #DueProcess by fellow bitcoin fan #NayibBukele…
#Ukraine #JDVance
@GossiTheDog i find it hard to believe he could be arrested without russian cooperation.
dons tinfoil hat] feels like part of whatever back room deal between Trump and Putin is going on with [#AlexanderVinnik.
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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.
This is what the kids call "sus" […]
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US releases Russian cybercriminal as part of exchange for teacher Marc Fogel
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
You all didn't actually think 47 said, Vlad, Give me back our teacher.
#AlexanderVinnik
#BackInMoscow
Text from article: After five years in a Russian prison, American Marc Fogel is finally back home. The White House 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 Alexander Vinnik being released from custody in California, and the Kremlin said there was an exchange. We don’t know what we don’t know. But it’s never a good sign when the American leadership is less truthful than Vladimir Putin. Happy Wednesday.
"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 […]
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Russia to get back jailed cybercrime boss from US after freeing teacher Marc Fogel; Belarus releases three detainees, including American @sightmagazine.bsky.social #MarcFogel #AlexanderVinnik #US #Russia #Belarus #AndreiKuznechyk #DonaldTrump
sightmagazine.com.au/news/russia-...
@emptywheel.bsky.social And this? :
"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 […]
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? […]
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JUST IN (#Russia) via ABC News:
"US is preparing to return cybercrime kingpin #AlexanderVinnik to Russian custody as part of an exchange for American #MarcFogel, a U.S. official said Wednesday."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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#AlexanderVinnik, the OG russian crypto money launderer 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 […]
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