The Russian is to be extracted to the US as part of a criminal case regarding Aleksander Winnik. – The Minister of Justice Poland signed the consent to the extradition of my client Dmitry Wasiljew to the United States. He was detained in Warsaw in connection with an American investigation in a criminal case, in which Aleksander Winnik was also the accused – said Sierzhin.
The former head of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange Dmitry Wasiliew was arrested in 2021 in Warsaw. The Russian was wanted in several countries in connection with the embezzlement of several hundred million dollars.
$ 450 million has disappeared from the stock exchange that he had. belonging to investors from many countries, including Poland. The Russian was already detained in 2019 in Italy. For procedural reasons, however, he was released from there.
Russian Aleksander Winnik, described as the King of Bitcoins, was issued by Greece to the Americans in August 2022. In the US he was threatened with 55 years in prison for washing a few billion dollars. through the Bitcoin exchange BTC. In May 2024, Winnik pleaded guilty about the collusion regarding money laundering. However, the verdict in this case was not passed. In February 2025, Winnik was released from an American prison and handed over to Russia in exchange for a former employee of the United States embassy in Russia of Marc Fogel.
