Claiming BTC-e that Alexander Vinnik is not their employee and returning funds to its owners.
The BTC-e site has recently been shut down, and some time before the announcement was announced that Alexander Vinnik was arrested for money laundering. After this story, the cryptography community guessed that this person is the domain controller of the BTC-e.
Vinnik was often known as the "BTC-e Operator," and was even charged with the same title in the Justice Department. The Russian government has accused him of money laundering through the BTC-e, which, according to reports, includes 300,000 stolen bitcoins from Mt Gox.
The theory of this person's association with the BTC-e is the fact that the BTC-e domain is confiscated by the authorities. On the other hand, Vinnik has been sentenced by the United States Jury and BTC-e has received $ 110 million in compensation from the Financial Crimes Network (FinCEN).
With the disruption of the BTC-e domain and its capture by the government and the arrest of its potential manager, users concluded that their assets may have been seized by the government. As a result, a lawsuit was made at change.org to allow innocent BTC-e users to withdraw their money.
The cashier at the Bitcointalk forum has posted a Russian announcement that has been tweeted, informing users about what's happening and making it a little clearer.
According to the BTC-e, the databases were flooded by the FBI on July 25th, and at that time the FBI seized all equipment and servers, including databases and wallets.
The currency exchange company claims that the reason for not updating the users of the situation is to expect them to get response from the web host, and according to a post posted by the exchange, some of its services are under FBI supervision. The post added that over the next ten weeks, information will be provided on the options available to this exchange provider to return to work and how to retrieve customers' capital. "In the current situation, if the system failed to work again by the end of August (the current month), it will begin to recover funds from September 1," he writes. In the next 1-2 weeks we will estimate how much of the capital is in the hands of the FBI and how much it can be recovered. "
At the bottom of this post, the BTC-e is always based on trust and capital will be returned to all individuals. Also, in the case of the arrest of Vinnik, he writes that this person is never a BTC-e director and not even a member of its staff.
In the end, in response to those who still have doubts, the exchangemate writes: "For all those who buried us, I point out that this service has always worked in confidence, and we are ready to respond to this matter. The funds will be returned to all! "
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