Ivanov Aleksei S.

Ivanov Aleksei S.

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2023: Transfer of the criminal case from Novosibirsk to Moscow

On July 21, 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation granted the petition of the administrator cryptoexchanges WEX Alexei Ivanov and his defenders to change the territorial jurisdiction and transfer the criminal case for consideration to the Meshchansky District Court. Moscow

Ivanov A.S. is accused of being the system administrator of a crypto exchange in a foreign limited liability legal entity registered in Singapore, World Exchenge Services Pte, in 2018. Ltd. " («World Exchange Services Pte. Ltd. ") (hereinafter also - the company" WEX "), located in the Zaeltsovsky district of Novosibirsk and using access to the online platform" VEKS " ("WEX"), received the opportunity for sole access and disposal of cryptocurrency, excluding access to it by the owner of the exchange, his representatives and users, after which he appropriated the digital currency entrusted to him (cryptocurrency) of various names in the amount equivalent to 3 167 433 649 rubles at the exchange rate for 24.10.2018, which is an especially large size, - said the press service of the Courts of General Jurisdiction of the Novosibirsk Region on July 26, 2023.

In April 2023, this case entered the Zaeltsovsky District Court of Novosibirsk. The Russian is accused of a crime under Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Appropriation, that is, theft of someone else's property entrusted to the culprit, committed on an especially large scale"). Ivanov faces imprisonment for up to 10 years, as well as a fine of up to 1 million rubles.

MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia On April 13, 2023, it was reported that a preliminary investigation into the theft of funds from the WEX crypto exchange was completed. During the investigation, the real estate of Alexei Ivanov and the "voluntarily contributed" funds in the amount of over 4.3 billion rubles were seized. The accused was taken into custody.^[1]

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