{"id":65516,"date":"2022-08-09T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65516"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:23:17","slug":"us-denies-bail-to-alexander-vinnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/us-denies-bail-to-alexander-vinnik\/","title":{"rendered":"US Denies Bail to Alexander Vinnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect in operating and laundering funds through the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, Alexander Vinnik, is not eligible for release on bail. This is stated in the inmate&#8217;s <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.acgov.org\/sheriff_app\/inmateSearch.do\\\">profile<\/a> on the Santa Rita jail&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5, at a court hearing, Vinnik declared his innocence. The next hearing is scheduled for August 15, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/obschestvo\/15426135\\\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the Russian national was extradited from France to Greece. From there <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vinnik-transported-to-the-united-states-shortly-after-extradition-to-greece\">he was immediately taken to the United States<\/a>, where he first <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/alexander-vinnik-appears-before-u-s-court-in-san-francisco-for-the-first-time\">appeared before an American court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTC-e and Vinnik himself are accused of operating an unlicensed business in the United States, laundering funds and participating in illicit financial operations.<\/p>\n<p>He faces around 50 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect in operating and laundering funds through the BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, Alexander Vinnik, is not eligible for release on bail from prison. This is stated in the inmate&#8217;s profile on the Santa Rita jail&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65517,"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":[688,26],"class_list":["post-65516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-alexander-vinnik","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65518,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65516\/revisions\/65518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}