--- title: Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty... description: Russian operator of BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, Alexander Vinnik, has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. BTC-e facilitated... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/russian-operator-of-btc-e-crypto-exchange-pleads-guilty-to-money-laundering-bsqo4vuwl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering | daily.dev og:description: Russian operator of BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, Alexander Vinnik, has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. BTC-e facilitated... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/russian-operator-of-btc-e-crypto-exchange-pleads-guilty-to-money-laundering-bsqo4vuwl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BSQO4VUWL.png og:image:alt: Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering **[The Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/thn)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Russian operator of BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, Alexander Vinnik, has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. BTC-e facilitated transactions for cybercriminals worldwide, received over $4 billion worth of bitcoin, and processed over $9 billion-worth of transactions. Vinnik was responsible for a loss amount of at least $121 million. Another BTC-e operator, Aliaksandr Klimenka, has also been charged. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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