The lawyer said that the plane with Alexander Vinnik has landed in Moscow
Moscow, February 13, 2025, 23:59 – Regnum news agency. The plane with released Russian Alexander Vinnik has arrived in Moscow. This was reported to Izvestia on February 13 by his lawyer Arkady Bukh.
Vinnik was delivered to the Russian capital by a flight from Turkey.
The release of the Russian was carried out after the transfer of the US citizen Mark Vogel to Washington.
According to Flightradar, the flight with Vinnik landed in Vnukovo.
As reported IA Regnum, in 2017 Alexander Vinnik, co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, was detained during a family vacation in Greece and then extradited to the United States, where he was accused of money laundering. Under U.S. law, he faced a total of up to 200 years in prison.
During eight years of imprisonment, the Russian had serious health problems: prison doctors did not provide him with the necessary medical care, Vinnik was poorly fed, and he spent part of his sentence in solitary confinement, unable to communicate with other prisoners, said his mother Vera.
On the evening of February 12, White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt confirmed that the United States would release 45-year-old Russian Alexander Vinnik and transfer the man to Russia. In return, Washington received previously released by Moscow American Mark Vogel, who was sentenced in Russia for 14 years under the article on drug smuggling.
Source: https://regnum.ru/news/3947425