"Man arrested in Greece connected to BTC-e"

in bitcoin •  8 years ago  (edited)

2017-07-26 18_35_39-Reuters Tech News on Twitter_ _BREAKING_ Russian man arrested in Greece connecte.png
Source: https://twitter.com/ReutersTech/status/890232366320553984

Looks like another centralized exchange hit the dust.

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the same but on russian.

it is said there that 1 of 2 (or several) owners is arrested

"If in the next 48-hours the site doesn't come online to process withdrawals, you can forget about the money."

upd/

it will take from 5 to 10 days to make the service running/ thanks 4 understanding

https://twitter.com/btcecom/status/890281223632764928

btcecom BTC-E tweeted @ 26 Jul 2017 - 18:42 UTC

Update2: На данный момент ведутся работы по восстановлению работы сервиса. Примерные сроки от 5 до 10 дней. Спасибо за понимание #btce

Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.

also, there is an info that it is somehow correlated with mtGox hack in 2014/

Do you have a link for this?

I do, but it's on russian)
https://bits.media/news/arestovannyy-v-gretsii-aleksandr-vinnik-sovladelets-birzhi-btc-e/

what I see in ru-telegram chats now is that people are 50/50 positive and negative about the end of this story/

I even saw that someone managed to contact other admin(s)

who knows was it a gossip or not?)

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

You already posted that one. Got a link for any of the telegram chat rooms?

it's on russian too)

Я знаю русский.

хах) ок)

https://t.me/btce_rip

где-то здесь видел

ReutersTech Reuters Tech News tweeted @ 26 Jul 2017 - 15:28 UTC

BREAKING: Russian man arrested in Greece connected to BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange - sources #ReutersFintech #fintech

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I use a translator for this greek page. It is confirmed is one of the BTC-e guys and the thing is going really hard. MTGox included...
http://www.dailythess.gr/h-megali-klopi-bitcoins-dark-web-ke-chlidati-zoi-tou-rosou-pou-entopise-fbi-sti-chalkidiki/

...operates and manages "one of the largest cybercrime websites in the world." -
New York Time

WTF! Was an online market... the largest cybercrime website in the world is the Wall Street web site :P But they try to put the bad name to BTC every time they can...

that for posting and giving such usefull info