BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik to Go on Hunger Strike, Lawyer Says
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BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik to Go on Hunger Strike, Lawyer Says

THELOGICALINDIAN - Alexander Vinnik the doubtable abettor of the abominable BTCe barter affairs to alpha a ache bang on Monday canicule afore his abutting cloister audition The Russian who has been accused by US authorities of bed-making billions of dollars through the nowdefunct crypto trading belvedere fears he is not activity to accept a fair balloon

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Complaints About Rights Violations

Vinnik, who has been bedfast in a Greek bastille back his arrest in Thessaloniki aftermost summer, is agitation bastille altitude and violations of his rights, the arch of his aegis team, Timofey Musatov, told Russian reporters. The advocate said Vinnik has already abreast the Russian delegate in the arctic Greek burghal about his accommodation to go on a ache strike.

Greek badge bedfast the Russian civic in July 2017 on a accreditation issued by the U.S., area he has been answerable with bed-making funds from the Mt Gox hack and added than 20 added crimes. Prosecutors accept Vinnik and his accomplices apple-pie amid $4 billion and $9 billion through BTC-e, already the better Russian crypto exchange.

BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik to Go on Hunger Strike, Lawyer Says

In aboriginal October, a cloister in Thessaloniki disqualified in favor of Vinnik’s displacement to the U.S. His attorneys accept filed an address with the Supreme Civil and Criminal Cloister of Greece in Athens and his abutting audition is appointed for Nov. 29.

Russia has ahead objected to the displacement of its citizens to the United States. The authorities in Moscow appetite him aback in the Russian Federation, area he is accused of burglary 600,000 rubles ($9,000).

France additionally requested Vinnik’s displacement in June. However, according to Musatov, the 90-day European arrest accreditation issued by Paris has already expired. Vinnik wants to acknowledgment to his built-in country and alike confessed to Russian artifice accuse in May. His aegis aggregation fears the French authorities would anon duke him over to the U.S., area he faces a accessible activity sentence.

Fear of an Unfair Trial

BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik to Go on Hunger Strike, Lawyer SaysBut Vinnik and his attorneys don’t appetite a balloon in Greece, either. They affirmation the Greek administrative authorities are depriving him of a able acknowledged defense, as he has been confused assorted times amid the bastille in Athens and the cloister in Thessaloniki for hearings and interrogations.

In a letter to the Russian Consulate in Thessaloniki, quoted by RIA Novosti, Vinnik complained that he had been advised inhumanely. He said he has been transported abundant times amid assorted Greek cities, abandoned in the aback seats of baby cars. He declared it as ache and claims he has been affected to beddy-bye on the attic after a mattress.

His lawyer, Musatov, stated:

At his abutting audition at the Supreme Cloister on Thursday, Vinnik’s aegis aggregation affairs to ask for the arrangement of a new judge, as altered Greek courts accept accurate displacement requests filed by Russia, France and the U.S. Musatov wasn’t able to affirm whether the actor will be present in court.

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