{"id":74462,"date":"2023-02-22T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74462"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:16:28","slug":"vinniks-lawyer-signals-possibility-of-a-prisoner-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vinniks-lawyer-signals-possibility-of-a-prisoner-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinnik\u2019s lawyer signals possibility of a prisoner exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Alexander Vinnik, accused of laundering at least $4 billion through the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, may be considered a candidate for the next prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. His lawyer David Rizk said this in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230221\/vinnik-1853557977.html\">\u0420\u0418\u0410 \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI would not rule out such a possibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The previous hearing in Vinnik&#8217;s case, scheduled for February 18, was postponed due to a scheduling clash at the penitentiary facility where he is held.<\/p>\n<p>The next hearing is scheduled for February 24.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Alexander Vinnik was detained in Greece. In 2020, he was extradited to France, where he was later sentenced to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/alexander-vinnik-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-and-a-e100000-fine\">five years in prison and a fine of \u20ac100,000<\/a> for money laundering. Charges of extortion and creating the Locky ransomware were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>In early August 2022, Vinnik <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vinnik-transported-to-the-united-states-shortly-after-extradition-to-greece\">was moved to the United States<\/a>, where he faces up to 55 years in prison. The court <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-denies-bail-to-alexander-vinnik\">refused<\/a> to release him on bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Alexander Vinnik, accused of laundering at least $4 billion through the BTC-e exchange, may become a candidate for the next prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74463,"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":[688,1350,1162,26],"class_list":["post-74462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-alexander-vinnik","tag-btc-e-wex","tag-court-cases","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462","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=74462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74464,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462\/revisions\/74464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}