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The Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating the first criminal case in Russia related to the embezzlement of money and property of a cryptocurrency exchange. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.
According to her, the suspect was detained at a private airfield hotel in the Serpukhov city district of the Moscow region. According to the investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the theft of money from the cryptocurrency exchange was committed by one of the actual owners of the online trading platform. It was established that the man controlled the movement of funds in cryptocurrency and their transfers to electronic wallets, and then withdrew part of the funds and appropriated them.
The police found more than 190 million rubles in cash in two suitcases of the suspect. In this criminal case, 29 searches were carried out in the homes of the defendant and his alleged accomplices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yalta. Over 50 million rubles, $1 million, 70 thousand euros, expensive computer equipment and hardware crypto wallets were confiscated.
To date, the detainee has been arrested. The court will consider a petition to seize his property, the value of which exceeds 2 billion rubles.
Source: Rosbalt
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