Russian Alexander Vinnik goes to Russia from Turkey, his arrival at the Moscow airport is expected in the near future.
This was announced in an interview with TASS correspondent, his lawyer Arkady Bukh.
“We received updated information about the whereabouts and status of our client, Mr. Vinnik. We were informed that our client arrived by plane to Turkey, from where it was sent to another flight to Russia. His arrival at the Moscow airport is expected in the next few hours,” – The agency’s interlocutor emphasized, ”he said.
According to the lawyer, recently in the federal court of the United States, a hearing was held in the case of Mr. Vinnik.
According to the decision of the judge, the materials of the hearing were classified, the lawyer does not have the right to comment on its content and the course of the meeting.
Added that Vinnik “is excluded from the database of a correctional institution where it was previously contained”.
“As a rule, this indicates the transfer of the US federal marshals to control. Now we have known that this process was accompanied by an international program,” the lawyer said.
Earlier, French lawyer Alexander Vinnik Frederick Belo told TASS that the US State Department confirmed the liberation of a Russian from an American prison.
Vinnik was arrested at the request of the FBI in July 2017 at one of the resorts of the Greek Peninsula of Chalkidika.
In the United States, he was suspected of creating and administering the BTC-E cryptocurrency exchange, which was a member of the ten largest crypto floods of the world with a daily turnover of $ 66 million.
The court of the Northern District of California estimated it at $ 9 billion.
In early 2020, Vinnik was sent to France, where he was accused of theft of personal data and extortion and sentenced to five years in prison.
In August 2022, Russians were extradited to the United States, where he was facing a 50-year term for laundering at least $ 4 billion.