Lawyer for Alexander Vinnik, a Russian who was extradited last month to the United States to face money laundering charges, called on Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to begin swap negotiations with Washington
The lawyer of a Russian man accused of laundering more than $4 billion through the digital currency bitcoin urged Moscow on Monday to begin negotiations with the United States to include his client in a potential prisoner swap.
“Now the only thing that can save Alexander is for the Russian Federation to enter into negotiations with the American authorities within the framework of the exchange of prisoners between the countries mentioned,” the letter from lawyer Frederic Belot said. He was extradited to France from Greece where he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering before he was sent back to Greece and then on to the United States where he appeared before a San Francisco judge early last month.
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