{"id":85106,"date":"2023-09-28T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85106"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:20:06","slug":"thai-court-extends-detention-of-russians-suspected-of-money-laundering-on-binance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/thai-court-extends-detention-of-russians-suspected-of-money-laundering-on-binance\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai court extends detention of Russians suspected of money laundering on Binance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians Daniil Aldunenko and Roman Brik, detained in Thailand on suspicion of cryptocurrency-related fraud, had their detention extended until December 5, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/proisshestviya\/18853049\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By that date or within seven days thereafter, the court must review the case and render a verdict of guilty or not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, Aldunenko and Brik participated in laundering funds for a criminal group via the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, using forged documents and passing their details to third parties.<\/p>\n<p>There is an aggravating circumstance \u2014 a local resident killed his wife and two minor children after the scammers forced the woman to transfer a large sum borrowed on credit to their account.<\/p>\n<p>Aldunenko&#8217;s defence argues that he is not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians were arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/two-russians-face-up-to-50-years-in-prison-for-cryptocurrency-fraud-in-thailand\">at the beginning of September<\/a>. They face 30 to 50 years in prison. Bail for the defendants was denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian nationals Daniil Aldunenko and Roman Brik, detained in Thailand on suspicion of cryptocurrency-related fraud, have had their detention extended until December 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85107,"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":[1162,1154,1246,1266],"class_list":["post-85106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-scammers","tag-thailand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106","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=85106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85108,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106\/revisions\/85108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}