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Pavel Lerner is a former top manager of the EXMO crypto exchange and one of the most influential people in the crypto industry.
Biography
2017: Robbery in Ukraine
In December 2017, Lerner was kidnapped in Ukraine by unknown persons, and demanded a ransom of one million dollars in bitcoins. Having received a ransom, the kidnappers released the programmer.
2018
In 2018, Lerner left EXMO for another exchange - Utorg. Another significant project that Lerner was engaged in is Monolith OS DAO, the first project of a decentralized crypto-ruble - a stable MCR coin with a soft peg to the Russian ruble in the ratio of 1:1. According to the research portal Cryptolab, Pavel Lerner is one of the world's best developers of analytical systems and a specialist in quantum computing.
2023: Arrest in Spain
In February 2023 Spain , Pavel Lerner was detained. He is suspected of complicity in conducting illegal operations for the cryptocurrency exchange. Bitzlato
Spanish media reported the other day that the Civil Guard detained in Barcelona and Valencia three citizens of Russia and Ukraine who are related to this crypto site. "In an operation launched in France and covering five countries, six people were arrested, half of them in Spain. They are P.L., 45, and O.G., 25, both Barcelona residents, and M.L., 26, he was in Valencia. The detainee in Valencia lived in a rented apartment, and planned to leave Spain in the near future, "Europa Press and Baza wrote.
Bitzlato co-founder Anton Shkurenko on YouTube confirmed Lerner's arrest.