Co-ordinate to a Facebook post by Alexander Vinnik'due south lawyer, Zoe Konstantopoulou, the alleged BTC-east coin launderer has successfully been extradited to French republic.

Social media update

In a post on the social media site at UTC 8:10, Konstantopoulou wrote:

"Alexander is at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Paris, every bit my French colleague informed me, while the Greek authorities are hiding and pretending to know nothing. She hasn't been allowed to see him however and they will try to question him tonight, exhausted and without communication or information! I already sent a request to postpone his hearing for tomorrow

If this is non a complete leveling of the rule of law, what is it?"

Cointelegraph reported before today, Jan. 23, that Hellenic republic had agreed to extradite Vinnik to France, contrary to the wishes of Vinnik and members of the Russian regime.

Withal, this announcement was followed by some doubt, equally Russian news outlet RIA Novosti reported on confusion among Vinnik'southward lawyers after Vinnik was taken away from the hospital that housed him in Hellenic republic. His whereabouts at the fourth dimension was unknown for some fourth dimension.

His condition in question

Regarding the state of her client, Ms. Konstantopoulou wrote on Facebook:

"In every mode the authorities is trying to scare him, terrorize him, in a moment of great desperation, while his health has worsened [...] A human 30 months imprisoned, without accuse, on the limits of existence, who fights with his just weapons — his body and life — is also suffering from a psychological state of war."

Vinnik was arrested in late-July 2022 for laundering $4 billion in Bitcoin over six years as head of BTC-e, one of the world'south largest exchanges. The new few years saw a three-state tug-of-war over Vinnik, a Russian national.