RATE Group | Alleged Bitcoin Launderer Vinnik Announces Hunger Strike to ‘Get a Fair Trial’
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Alleged Bitcoin Launderer Vinnik Announces Hunger Strike to ‘Get a Fair Trial’

24 Nov Alleged Bitcoin Launderer Vinnik Announces Hunger Strike to ‘Get a Fair Trial’

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The lawyer for Alexander Vinnik, the alleged former operator of defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, said his defendant will go on a hunger strike this Monday, Russian state-owned news outlet TASS reported Nov. 23.

According to Timofey Musatov, the head of the lawyers representing Vinnik, the reason given for the hunger strike is that “he [Vinnik] was stripped of the right for defense in France and, consequently, in Greece.” The lawyer also noted that “it became clear that the [French-issued] European arrest warrant expired.”

In 2017, Greece’s supreme court ruled to extradite Vinnik to the U.S., where he faces charges of money laundering and fraud. In June, a Greek court ruled to extradite Vinnik to France. The Greek Supreme Court discussed Vinnik’s extradition to France on Nov. 19, but postponed the ruling to Nov. 29, as TASS reports.

According to TASS, Musatov also accuses the judge of the Greek Supreme Court of ignoring him and his team:

“The Greek Supreme Court’s…

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