Who is Aleksei Andriunin, Russian founder of Gotbit, who is extradited to the US?

Aleksei Andriunin, a Russian nationalist and laminitis of Gotbit, was extradited by United States authorities due to the fact that of his alleged activities wrong an extended cryptocurrency marketplace manipulation conspiracy for his lawsuit cryptocurrency organizations.

The Portuguese authorities arrested Aleksei Andriunin connected October 8, 2024 erstwhile helium was 26 years aged and past helium was transferred to the United States connected February 25, 2025. The authorities brought Andriunin to Boston national tribunal wherever helium received jailhouse detention until a aboriginal tribunal day is set.

Andriunin received his national indictment done a Boston-based expansive assemblage connected October 31, 2024 connected 2 counts of ligament fraud alongside 1 number of conspiracy to manipulate markets and perpetrate ligament fraud. The ineligible charges against Gotbit see 2 directors of Fedor Kedrov and Qawi Jalili alongside the institution itself.

Court documents amusement Gotbit operated arsenic a salient marketplace shaper wrong the cryptocurrency domain. Gotbit operated arsenic an artificial trading work supplier that delivered fabricated marketplace measurement to assorted cryptocurrency companies during 2018-2024 which included companies contiguous successful the United States.

Gotbit had Aleksei Andriunin serving arsenic some its President and Chief Executive Officer. The interrogation transcript from 2019 reveals Andriunin describing however helium wrote codification to behaviour “wash trading” of cryptocurrencies successful bid to make artificial trading measurement which allowed cryptocurrencies to look connected CoinMarketCap and larger cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Gotbit employees arsenic good arsenic Andriunin pitched the lavation trading methods to caller clients done Jalili portion Kedrov provided instructions connected however Gotbit conducted commercialized operations to evade blockchain Gotbit provides its clients with lavation trading services worthy millions of dollars which generated proceeds exceeding tens of millions of dollars. 

Andriunin is accused of transferring galore millions of dollars from Gotbit into his Binance relationship which helium controlled personally.

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