Yesterday, July 25, Greek police arrested 38-year-old Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, who turned out to be a co-owner of one of the largest and most popular Bitcoin exchanges in Russia. He was arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece, on a US warrant, on suspicion of laundering $4 million via Bitcoin transactions. According to a report by Bits.media, the BTC-e exchange had gone offline sometime Tuesday morning, July 26, and remains unavailable. The first message from the team of BTC-e stating that the exchange is offline due to "unscheduled technical work" appeared on its official Twitter page one hour later.
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