Alexander Vinnik is the man at the center of what may be the most famous criminal case in cryptocurrency history, one that is set to unfold next month in a San Francisco courtroom.
Slender, with a mild expression and sensitive green eyes, Alexander Vinnik doesn’t look like a criminal mastermind fought over by nations, or someone who laundered billions of dollars for criminals, or someone whose enemies would try to poison him.
The DOJ says a cryptocurrency exchange Vinnik helped to run processed criminals’ loot that came from “computer intrusions and hacking incidents, ransomware scams, identity theft schemes, corrupt public officials, and narcotics distribution rings. And was used to facilitate crimes ranging from computer hacking, to fraud, identity theft, tax refund fraud schemes, public corruption and drug trafficking.
During all this, suggestions by experts that Vinnik may have laundered money for Russian nation-state hackers turned up the heat in the international dispute. Fancy Bear, a Russian hacking group involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, appeared to have laundered cryptocurrency through Vinnik’s company, BTC-e, a digital forensics company called Elliptic found in 2017, working with the BBC.
Now Vinnik sits in the East Bay jail, reading Stephen King novels and waiting for the wheels of American jurisprudence to turn. He says the saga to prosecute him has been grueling.
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