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Sentencing of Russian citizen Vinnik in US postponed until June 2025

NEW YORK, November 27. /TASS/. The Northern District Court of the State of California postponed the sentencing of Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik in a money laundering case to June 2025, according to documents uploaded to the court’s online database.
The sentencing was postponed from January 17 to June 27, 2025.
Vinnik has entered a plea deal in the US, and pleaded guilty in May.
Vinnik was detained in Greece on July 25, 2017, at the request of the United States, where he is accused of laundering $4 bln-$9 bln through the now defunct crypto exchange BTC-e. He was extradited to the US on August 4, 2022.
Earlier, his attorney Arkady Bukh told a TASS correspondent that Vinnik’s sentencing in the money laundering case had been postponed until 2025.

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