Lawyer of Alleged Crypto Launderer Vinnik Calls on Russia to Talk Prisoner Swap With…

Bitcoin.com | Sep 7, 2022 at 10:30 AM
  • A lawyer representing Russian IT specialist Alexander Vinnik has urged the government in Moscow to discuss a potential exchange of prisoners with the United States, where he was recently extradited.
  • Frederic Belot, a member of Vinnik’s defense team who represented him in French courts, has issued his call in a letter addressed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Reuters reported on Monday after seeing the correspondence.
  • The lawyer insisted that after his imprisonment in solitary confinement in France, the 43-year-old Russian suffers from partial loss of memory due to the stress of isolation, as established by psychiatrists.