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Bitcoin Site Fined $110 Million for Money Laundering, Owner Arrested for Hacking

One of the oldest digital currency exchanges, known as BTC-e, remained off-line following a one-two punch by law enforcement over a series of allegedly criminal acts by the site and its owner.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a $110 million fine against BTC-e for facilitating crimes like drug sales and ransomware attacks along with a separate $12 million fine against its owner, Alexander Vinnik.

BTC-e is headquartered in Russia and has long served as a forum where users can exchange traditional currencies for bitcoin or other digital monies like Ethereum or Dash.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department also filed a series of criminal charges, including conspiracy and money laundering, against Vinnik after snatching him up in Greece.

The agencies claim BTC-e, which was founded in 2011, blatantly ignored “know your customer” laws in order to cater to a criminal customer base, and even hosted message boards buzzing with illegal activities. According to a Justice Department press release:

BTC-e .. was heavily reliant on criminals, including by not requiring users to validate their identity, obscuring and anonymizing transactions and source of funds, and by lacking any anti-money laundering processes. The indictment alleges BTC-e was operated to facilitate transactions for cybercriminals worldwide and received the criminal proceeds of numerous computer intrusions and hacking incidents, ransomware scams, identity theft schemes, corrupt public officials, and narcotics distribution rings.

Instead of acting to prevent money laundering, BTC-e and its operators embraced the pervasive criminal activity conducted at the exchange. Users openly and explicitly discussed criminal activity on BTC-e’s user chat. [my emphasis]

The charges against Vinnik also accuse him of helping to orchestrate the hack of Mt. Gox, which was once the most popular digital currency exchange, but shut down in 2014 following a after a massive series of mysterious robberies.

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Wednesday’s news comes as a reminder that, even as mainstream investors like hedge funds and venture capitalists rush to acquire digital currencies, many of the currencies’ core users are still criminal networks.

As for BTC-e, a message from its Twitter account says the site will be down for five to 10 days, though many on social media are speculating its gone for good.

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BTC-e, Mt Gox, Bitcoinica.

Those who are new to bitcoin and blockchain technology may have been surprised today by an influx of strange companies and persons that have long been out of the mainstream news. Yet, for long-time industry technologists and observers, the developments are actually a major breakthrough with serious implications.

Not only does it shed light on notorious cases of massive bitcoin thefts, but it also connects one of bitcoin's longest-running legal efforts (in which creditors lost hundreds of millions in bitcoin) to its murkiest exchange long suspected of enabling criminal activity.

In short, the assertions being made by law enforcement and independent analysts (if true) could pull back the curtain on the earliest days of bitcoin's history.

For those who weren't following the blow-by-blow, we've assembled the timeline, implications and unknowns below.

To begin, here are the major players:

• BTC-e: Once one of bitcoin's largest exchanges, little is known about BTC-e despite the fact that it has operated one of the most consistently available ways to exchange fiat currency for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. BTC-e does not take customer information, and its location and employee structure are unknown (though it has long been suspected of operating out of eastern Europe).
• Mt Gox: Likely a more familiar name, the defunct Japan-based exchange was the victim of a massive hack in 2014 that saw millions in customer funds stolen. Since then, creditors are still largely fighting for compensation, and its former CEO is now on trial in Japan. At one point in 2013, Mt Gox was responsible for the majority of bitcoin exchange volume.
• WizSec: An independent and informal investigative outlet based in Japan, WizSec is a team of blockchain analysts and Mt Gox creditors who have long been investigating the exchange's demise. While it has provided information to law enforcement in the past, this responsibility has now largely passed to Chainalysis and Kraken, two more well-capitalized bitcoin startups.

The timeline

This cast of characters came to a head again this morning when news broke that an individual, said to be a native Russian, was arrested in Greece on money laundering charges connected to the use of bitcoin.

Since then, it's been a fast-developing story.

The prelude

BTC-e announces on July 25 it is undertaking "unplanned maintenance in [its] data center."

Two hours after that initial tweet, the exchange tweets that its engineers "are still looking into the issue." While no statement was given on an exact time at which it would come back online, the exchange said "we hope to get back online soon," with more updates promised.

A similar tweet is issued roughly five hours later, effectively reiterating that prior message.

Arrest news breaks

International news organizations, including the Associated Press, reported earlier today that a Russian man was arrested in Greece. The first details to emerge implicate the then-as-yet-named individual in a "$4 billion" laundering scheme involving bitcoins.

News services went on to say that the individual in question is named Alexander Vinnik. It's further added, per Reuters, that the laundering took place through a "bitcoin" platform.

As these details emerged, users – taking to social media to voice concern over the potential closure of BTC-e – began connecting Vinnik to one of the exchange's leaders, named "Alexander," who spoke with CoinDesk in a 2014 interview.

The next detail to drop, with Reuters citing sources close to BTC-e, was that Vinnik is "connected" to the exchange, though it later amended its article to state that he is "suspected of being the anonymous mastermind behind one of the world's oldest crypto-currency exchanges."

This information was reportedly derived from a US arrest warrant that was then executed by Grecian authorities.

A source with knowledge of the investigation later told CoinDesk that the arrest warrant remains under seal at this time.

WizSec releases initial findings

At roughly 18:00 UTC, WizSec released a report which stressed that, at this time, there's nothing to definitively connect Vinnik or a related alias to the theft of funds from Mt Gox, but rather, the connection is with the subsequent laundering of that money.

In interview, the firm said its newly published work was not timed to coincide with today's news events – rather, it was inspired by it.

WizSec told CoinDesk that the news today rather added a missing piece to its investigation – namely, the connection between the Mt Gox heist and BTC-e. Instead, its focus was on tracing stolen Mt Gox coins across the blockchain to a network of wallets they had long known were involved in money laundering.

Notably, this network of wallets was also found to have contained coins connected to a hack on Mt Gox in 2011, as well as a hack on an exchange called Bitcoinica in 2012. Those accounts, according to the researchers, could be tied to an online account "WME," which the firm identified as being owned by person named Alexander Vinnik prior to today's developments.

The finding allowed WizSec to add new context to another clue – the fact that some of the coins connected to the theft seemed to go through a unique avenue within BTC-e's public wallet architecture.

According to the firm, some coins went directly to what they believe was a "second-tier wallet," an irregularity that wasn't previously explored.

The finding, coupled with Vinnik's alleged connection to the exchange, prompted the firm to pen the blog post.

What's not clear

Despite quickly snowballing, some details about the story remain unclear.

What was Vinnik's role at BTC-e?

Perhaps the biggest detail yet to be confirmed is the exact nature of Vinnik's connection to BTC-e. Though Reuters, citing sources, says that he is believed to be the "mastermind" of the cryptocurrency exchange, the relevant arrest warrant has yet to be made available.

Authorities have also not commented publicly on the arrest nor clarified Vinnik's relationship with BTC-e. Nor is it entirely clear when Vinnik may face a court hearing on the charges for which he has been arrested.

US authorities are said to be pursuing an extradition of Vinnik. Yet The Associated Press reported that "under Greek law, he can be held for up to two months until the request is examined," meaning that it may be some time before Vinnik is brought to the US.

How involved was BTC-e in the laundering?

It's unclear whether BTC-e found face larger repercussions or if more arrests could be made.

While BTC-e has a long history of silence and secrecy, it's never been proven that the operation itself is a criminal enterprise, though this news would go a long way toward establishing suspicions.

Will Vinnik name names?

It's also unclear whether the arrest of Vinnik will lead to details about who could have been behind the Mt Gox and Bitcoinica thefts.

Should Vinnik be willing to provide details about the individual, it's possible that a suspect could be identified who could face criminal charges, shedding light on a long obtuse part of the story.

It's a development that also comes as the trial of Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is underway. Karpeles appeared in court earlier this month, pleading not guilty to embezzlement and data manipulation charges.

Is BTC-e finished?

There's a big emphasis on conditionals here, given that we don't currently know whether authorities are moving to shut down the exchange or seize connected assets. However, recent dark market crackdowns suggest that law enforcement officials are taking an aggressive stance that could extend to BTC-e.

What we do know is that, earlier today, BTC-e's official Twitter account issued a statement saying that it would come back online in the next five to 10 days.

"Update2: at the moment we are working on the restoration of service. Approximate terms from 5 to 10 days. Thanks for your understanding #btce," the exchange's account tweeted.

Given that BTC-e representatives have not responded to a request for comment by press time, only time will tell if that pledge comes true.

Wolfie Wei-Zhao and Stan Higgins contributed reporting.

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BTC-e Down explained by professional Forex trading experts the “ForexSQ” FX trading team.

Why BTC-e Down

As if the recent plethora of completely false Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) that have infested the lower end of the retail FX trading sector as a result of malevolent binary options and small b-book firms from fringe locations have morphed into is not enough to ensure that genuine industry participants keep well away from cryptocurrency related toxicity, then this week’s occurrences should be conclusive.

Whilst those in the know concur that ICO and cryptocurrency related pyramid schemes which involve completely fabricated units of non-currency to fund non-starter projects with absurd pipe dream products bear no relation whatsoever to the genuine electronic trading business, there is still a school of thought that considers Bitcoin to be a commodity, which can be traded very effectively on a retail trading platform as a bona fide asset class.

This, on the face of it, may well appear to be not so far-fetched, and with the unprecedented rise in ‘value’ of Bitcoin recently, many smaller retail FX firms have been far too tempted to go down the route of literally going all out on Bitcoin trading.

Bitcoin, like all other virtual currencies, may well be classified as a commodity in terms of its status as a tradeable asset class, but unlike genuine commodities which are usually raw material based, Bitcoin has no issuer, has no method for pricing, cannot be cleared by any institution, and perhaps worse still, was the creation of, and is the darling of anarchists who do not mean well.

Last week, FinanceFeeds reported that one particular well known retail FX brokerage had suffered a loss of approximately $40 million as a result of Bitcoin trading, and now cannot pay its affiliates. The authorities have no means of intervening and customers have no recourse, because effectively they were taking highly leveraged risks in trading something that, as far as the mainstream financial system is concerned, does not exist.

We are aware of several other brokers, largely in Russia and Cyprus, that have experienced significant losses recently from Bitcoin trading.

The more conservative among us have explained to FinanceFeeds that the folly of cryptocurrency trading will likely be fully understood if the value of Bitcoin just drops to around $15,000 – it does not have to go to zero. This would create a worse situation for those who got involved in it than the Swiss National Bank’s decision to remove the 1.20 peg on the EURCHF pair in January 2015.

It is, however, worse than that. Of course, it is prudent to speculate that Bitcoin values will collapse with an almighty thud akin to an iron girder being thrown from a precipice once it is realized that this is a back-street circumvention of a well proven system rather than a route to the future, however due to its completely peer-to-peer nature, it does not even have to fall in value (which it will, mark my words – ed.) for brokerages to be completely devoured by corrupt exchange owners, premeditated e-wallet thefts by those on the inside, and dubious demises of venues whilst the owners literally leg it to the Seychelles.

Tier 1 issuers of currency, such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Barclays cannot leg it with your money.

Raw materials exchanges in Chicago and Hong Kong cannot leg it and say that millions of tons of physical gold no longer exists.

Reserve banks and national governments with constitutions and laws cannot leg it and say we are no longer here and everything has vanished into the ether.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency fraternities can, and have done in the past, and will do even more of that now that Bitcoin’s value is so high that they can rake as many dollars as possible and run.

If the demise of MtGox and the arrest of owner Mark Karpeles several years ago was not a precursor, then who knows what was.

This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States has implicated two FX brokerages in its investigation of defunct Bitcoin venue BTC-e.

During 2013 and 2014, BTC-e had many outages related to Distributed Denial of Service attacks. They later began using the reverse proxy service CloudFlare to help mitigate these attacks, reducing downtime for the exchange.

The BTC-e website has been offline since 25 July 2017, following the arrest of BTC-e staff members and the seizure of server equipment at one of their data centers. In addition, suspected BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik was arrested while vacationing with his family in Greece. These events led to the suspension of the BTC-e service.

On the 28th of July 2017, US authorities seized the BTC-e.com domain name.

BTC-e posted on 31st July 2017 that Alexander Vinnik was never the operator or employee of BTC-e and that they would be back working within a month or would put facilities in place to return funds and coins to users.

Greek Supreme Court cleared on December 13, 2017 the extradition of Vinnik to the US.

From there, the FBI has been continuing its investigation, and has brought two firms into the matter, those being Russian retail FX brokerage FXOpen, and Russian-owned, Cyprus based firm Mayzus.

Investigations in Russia have stated this week that, in 2013, Mr Vinnik met with an employee of Mayzus Financial Services (MFS), which has a payment license from the FCA and is registered in Britain, the firm being owned by Russian businessman Sergey Mayzus.

Before the beginning of the conversation, the representative of Mayzus asked Mr Vinnik to show his passport to make sure that he is really who he claims to be. “The purpose of the meeting was to get acquainted and discuss services that are necessary for BTC-e,” the Mayzus director explained in a memorandum to the Greek courts on December 6, 2017.

According to the FBI and investigators locally, Mayzus belongs to the payment systems providers OkPay and MoneyPolo. Through them, users of BTC-e could replenish their accounts on the site – along with “Yandex.Money” and other services. However, Mayzus had one exclusive service: BTC-e users could make the transfer directly from the bank account, bypassing the conversion into electronic money. Those who had become advocates of bitcoins did not know who was the final recipient of funds from BTC-e, thanks to the presence of the first intermediary in the form of Mayzus.

Later in 2013, after the meeting with Mr Vinnik, Mazyus opened accounts of several companies, in particula Always Efficient, a British entity, and Canton Business, based in the Seychelles.

These companies “provided services under the BTC-e brand”, it follows from an explanatory note. Canton Business, judging by the indictment of the Northern District Court of California, is the “offshore management company” of the exchange, and Always Efficient since mid-2015 was listed on the BTC-e site as the official site operator (WayBack Machine data).

In addition to the accounts opened for law firms, at the same time, the accounts of two private individuals were entered into the company of Mayzus, as indicated in the note sent to the Athens court. Both were registered “as management bodies,” that is, company executives. Always Efficient was represented by 30-year-old Alexander Buyanov, and 37-year-old Stanislav Golovanov – Canton Business.

In order to speak with Mr Buyanov, a correspondent from Russian media entity RBC magazine went to the Moscow karaoke bar Shishas on Novy Arbat, where he works as a DJ. In order to talk about crypto-currencies, he had to go out into the street, making his way through the dancers. Mr Buyanov’s appearance was described by the correspondant as completely counter to any professional in the electronic trading or financial services business, as he had a beard and styled moustache, rather like an anarchistic ‘hipster’ than a trustworthy professional.

Mr Buyanov absolutely does not resemble in appearance or character to be the owner of the exchange with a turnover of millions of dollars. The DJ insists that, up until the scandalous news of its demise, he did not know about the existence of BTC-e, maintaining that he was only responsible for Always Efficient and that he was its leader.

Representatives of Mayzus apparently never spoke with Mssrs Buyanov or Golovanov, as it follows from the explanatory note, all matters related to the cooperation of the company Maysus and BTC-e, were solved with Mr Vinnik remotely.

The IT entrepreneur himself repeatedly stated in court that he only advised the exchange as a “technical expert”. All communication went through the Internet, he does not know the names of his interlocutors from the trading platform, and Mr Vinnik told the correspondent of RBC magazine, while he waited for the meeting of the Greek trial. On the question whether he gave recommendations only on the issues of conducting exchange operations and withdrawal-input of funds, the Russian responded: “And not only.” He does not remember the exact date for the beginning of cooperation with the stock exchange: “Maybe earlier than 2013”.

The cash flow from BTC-e users was filtered not only thanks to Mayzus. Offshore firms, probably connected with Vinnik and who opened accounts in the company of Mayzus in 2013, sent funds to the next channel.

In May 2017, the administration of BTC-e took the first step towards abolishing the basic principle – the ability to buy and sell crypto currency anonymously, indicating only an e-mail address when registering. Users were offered to undergo voluntary verification in exchange for a number of advantages in the replenishment of personal accounts: for the development of the virtualization it was necessary to provide a scan of passports and, for example, copies of utility bills. It was necessary to pass the procedure not on BTC-e, but on another trading platform with a similar name – xBTCe.com, which can be connected with the company FXOpen.

FXOpen was founded in the mid-2000s. The holding, which unites a network of legal entities from Russia, Latvia, Great Britain, New Zealand and other countries, provides services for trading on the retail FX market. The Russian division of the group is headed by Elena Isaeva, Deputy Expert Advisory Council under the Budget Committee of the Federation Council. In various online ratings based on broker ratings, FXOpen is among the top 20 global companies and has a very good reputation in its home market.

The cooperation between FXOpen and BTC-e began in 2013, when the Exchange customers could trade the BTC / USD currency pair via the MetaTrader platform, and since 2014 users had the opportunity to give the Crypto-Currency to the trader management (the so-called PAMM accounts.)

Whether substantiable or not, the investigators claim that all software for “pumping” BTC-e was provided by FXOpen. This service was then not offered by any exchange, so users perceived it as a breakthrough.

In the second half of 2013, two new administrators registered at BTC-e – support5 and support1: they used Latvian IP-addresses of Soft-FX, a member of the FXOpen holding company (database of users of the exchange). Support1 subsequently behaved like a moderator of the marketplace participants, with the investigators having located substantial information from the chat archive. “This exchange [BTC-e] is a kindred of FXOpen”- wrote a client in early 2014 in a chat room about trading platforms.

FinanceFeeds has spoken to FXOpen’s senior management on this matter, and any common ownership was vehemently refuted, however the investigators maintain that kinship could be not only technical, but also financial. In Athens, Maysus handed over to Greek courts, a report to the National Anti-Criminal Agency of Great Britain, prepared by Mayzus Financial Services after the scandal with BTC-e. This analyzed the transactions of Alexander Vinnik’s structures for 2014-2017. Transit money went to the companies related to FXOpen, it follows from the document: only in 2017 the New Zealand company XP Solutions Ltd, connected with the forex holding, received through MFS about € 26.9 million.

Yesterday evening, FinanceFeeds took this up with FXOpen’s senior management.

“No, FXOpen is not a part of BTC-e” said the FXOpen executive.

“Yes, we worked with BTC-e by providing software and services, however I cannot comment at the moment due to investigation. “We already in contact with all investigators with all possible reports and we will be able to comment as soon as we will get acceptance from investigators, and we have some standard text for this situation, if you wait till Wednesday I will send it to you” he said.

The FXOpen executive explained to FinanceFeeds “Cryto is very popular and we have good software which is very popular now with users, and from day 1 we do KYC and AML and correct due diligence.”

“It is one hundred times more in demand than FX!” exclaimed the FXOpen executive.

“I believe it has a lot more potential to grow, however our prognosis for 2017 was $5000 to one BTC, which it exceeded, so we believe it will get to $50000 in 2018” he said.

“When the blow will happen is hard to say” explained the FXOpen executive. “At the moment it should grow more though, however with the current prices, the whole BTC-e story look a lot more important, as 690,000 Bitcoins were stolen.”

When approached by FinanceFeeds on the subject of exchanges and Bitcoin entities simply stealing from customers, the FXOpen executive said “It is just like the old times in FX!.”

“I will tell you one thing however” he said “Most of the FX brokers providing crypto on an OTC basis and doing B-book – it is suicide!”

The beneficiary of FXOpen is the 36-year-old native of Belarus Alexander Klimenko. He owns one of the main structures of the holding company, British FXOpen Ltd, and the company’s trademarks.

FXOpen “did not own shares in the BTC-e exchange and did not even cooperate with it, but simply provided technical solutions,” Mr Klimenko said in a conversation with a RBC correspondent, concurring exactly with what FXOpen’s executive explained to FinanceFeeds, indicating that a common legal reply has been generated. For all services, including verification through xBTCe.com, the exchange paid the holding, he added, refusing to give specific amounts. When asked if he knew Vinnik personally, Klimenko replied: “Of course, they came to our office”. Who exactly represented BTC-e, except Vinnik, the entrepreneur could not remember.

Mr Klimenko’s relatives explained to Russian investigative journalists that he lives permanently in Riga. Mr Vinnik, according to RBC magazine, only from February 2016 to May 2017, traveled to the Latvian capital at least six times, but Mr Klimenko said that he did not meet with him during this period. Mr Vinnik himself on request to talk about the acquaintance with the owner FXOpen said: “I cannot now answer this question.”

The last trip made by Mr Vinnik to Riga for one day was held in May 2017. Two months later, he again went to Europe – this time, along with his family, he flew for a vacation in Greece. And since then can not leave Greece as a result of the court’s ruling.

War of extradition

On July 25, 2017, more than a dozen men in shorts, T-shirts and sunglasses came to one of the beaches on the peninsula of Chalkidiki in Greece. They could be mistaken for tourists, but they did not go down to the sea to swim. Instead they were interested in a man who was resting on a sun lounger next Alexander Vinnik and his wife, an incident that was reported on Russian television channel RT. This led to a raising of profile, which then resulted in the Greek law enforcement agencies arrest of Mr Vinnik at the request of the US Department of Justice.

In parallel, FBI officers seized the exchange’s servers, which since 2011 were located in the US state of New Jersey. The BTC-e site stopped loading: the domain was seized – now there is a stub with the emblems of various American law enforcement agencies.

The indictment in the Winston Court of the Northern District of California was approved in January 2017. The arrest could only be effected after the entrepreneur went online with the mobile phone number known to the American authorities wrote the “RIA Novosti” agency.

In the US, Mr Vinnik is considered the owner of BTC-e, which cybercriminals used to launder money. The exact amount in the charge is not indicated: it is only written that the cost of bitcoins passed through the exchange exceeds $ 9 billion. However, in the release of the US Justice Department, published after the arrest of the Russian, another estimate was made – $ 4 billion.

In particular, US law enforcers believe that Vinnik had to do with the withdrawal of 530,000 bitcoins stolen from 2011 to 2014 from the purses of the Japanese Mt. Gox: 300 thousand went to three accounts on the BTC-e, including WME and Vamnedam, which are associated with Vinnik, stated in the materials of the US court.

The Greeks are considering the issue of Vinnik’s extradition slowly. From the beach to Chalkidiki, he was transported to the prison in Thessaloniki: in early October, the council of city judges supported the request of the Americans. But the Russian filed a complaint to a higher authority, the Areopagus, and he was transported to the Athenian prison. The final decision on the extradition of Vinnik will be taken by the Minister of Justice of Greece, who will then have to make the decision over where to extradite him, as Russia also sent a request for extradition.

FinanceFeeds is in possession of documents from the government of Cyprus which state clearly that the intention of Cyprus’ authorities – not at CySec level, but at central government level – is to remove the low level nefarious ICO, crypto and binary firms from Cyprus completely, in a bid to introduce funds and family offices to the island, hence the whiffy reputation created by foreign (Israeli and Russian) criminals touting binary options and ICO scams must be banished.

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