Shortly after BTC-e admin was arrested and the exchange went down nearly $170 Million in bitcoin was moved to 100s of Bitcoin addresses.
Authorities on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of Alexander Vinnik in Greece following an investigation led by the U.S. Justice Department and several other federal agencies and task forces into one of the longest running Bitcoin exchanges, BTC-e.com.
U.S. indicts suspected Russian 'mastermind' of $4 billion bitcoin laundering scheme | Reuters - 07/26/2017
NEW YORK/ATHENS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A U.S. jury indicted a Russian man on Wednesday as the operator of a digital currency exchange he allegedly used to launder more than $4 billion for people involved in crimes ranging from computer hacking to drug trafficking.
On the same day as the websites operators arrest BTC-e, via it's official Twitter account, notified it's users that the site would be down for unscheduled maintenance.
A little over 2 hours after BTC-e first tweet 66,163.40004136 BTC worth a total of USD$169,341,914.24 was moved from a cold Bitcoin address and distributed to hundreds, possibly thousands, of other addresses splitting the the total sum into smaller 20BTC amounts.
This could be a coincidence but other Twitter users aren't so sure.
The site is still down at time of posting with very little updates from their Twtter account.
