Russian Alexander Vinnik, suspected of laundering at least $4 billion through the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e,extradited to France. According to his lawyer Zoe Constantopoulou, Vinnik is in the Paris hospital of Hotel Dieu, where he was interrogated at night, RIA Novosti reports.
According to her, the extradition of Vinnik to France wasrather, it looks like an abduction, since they did not tell him where he was being taken, and he was forbidden to communicate with lawyers. This French colleague Konstantopulu allegedly reported himself Vinnik.
«He is currently being interrogated againsthis wishes while he is exhausted by a 35-day hunger strike and lack of sleep. They don't give him a reprieve, they don't let him contact me», —a defense spokeswoman said.
Some in the comments on the Constantopoulou recording suggested that the French authorities were in a hurry with interrogation in order to have time to extradite Vinnik further alive.
Recall, December 20, 2019 the head of the Ministry of JusticeGreece, Costas Ciaras signed a decision on the extradition of a Russian to France, and then to the United States and Russia. Vinnik's lawyers filed several complaints with the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece.
Yesterday immediately after the publication of the decision of the highestGreek Administrative Court rejecting a lawyer's complaint about Vinnik’s extradition to France and the United States were taken from a hospital in Greece and taken to an unknown destination.
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