{"id":62220,"date":"2022-05-30T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62220"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:39:37","slug":"former-wex-head-dmitry-vasilyev-detained-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/former-wex-head-dmitry-vasilyev-detained-in-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WEX head Dmitry Vasilyev detained in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former owner of the cryptocurrency exchange WEX Dmitry Vasilyev was detained at Zagreb airport while attempting to enter Croatia. Local media <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/vijesti\/hrvatska\/u-zagrebu-uhicen-miljenik-putinovog-oligarha-optuzen-je-za-kradu-cak-450-milijuna-dolara-15203838\\\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the detention took place on Wednesday, May 25, based on an Interpol red notice issued by Kazakhstan. Law enforcement authorities suspect Vasilyev of embezzling more than $20,000 and are pursuing his extradition.<\/p>\n<p>Vasilyev himself denies all charges.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in July 2018, due to &#8216;technical works&#8217; the WEX exchange halted full withdrawals. At the same time, according to Dmitry Vasilyev, a contract transferring ownership rights to WEX was signed with former DPR fighter Dmitry &#8216;Moryachku&#8217; Khavchenko.<\/p>\n<p>In August of that year, it became known that the exchange went bankrupt and ceased operations. An initiative group of clients estimated the damage at over $400 million. Vasilyev personally is credited with the withdrawal of $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2019, Kazakh law enforcement authorities, in absentia, declared him a suspect in fraud and announced an interstate arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2019, Vasilyev was arrested in Italy; he spent several weeks in custody.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, his detention and arrest were confirmed by the Warsaw district prosecutor&#8217;s office. In early December, the ex-head of WEX was released, after which he travelled to Russia. Then attorney Krzysztof Brola clarified that the court had not yet made a final decision regarding Dmitry Vasilyev&#8217;s extradition to Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Later, from one of WEX wallets, an unknown person withdrew 100 ETH. The funds were sent to the Binance exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, in Russia, the &#8216;red admin&#8217; of BTC-e (WEX) Alexei Bilyuchenko was detained, suspected of misappropriating the exchange&#8217;s assets.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former owner of the cryptocurrency exchange WEX Dmitry Vasilyev was detained while attempting to enter Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1350,1154,2269,1697,153,1444],"class_list":["post-62220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-btc-e-wex","tag-crimes","tag-croatia","tag-dmitry-vasiliev","tag-kazakhstan","tag-law-enforcement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62222,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62220\/revisions\/62222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}