ChainCatcher news, recently, according to market sources, analyst Emmett Gallic monitored that Aleksey Bilyuchenko, accused by the U.S. Department of Justice as the Mt. Gox hacker, has had related entities deposit 1,300 BTC (worth approximately $114 million) into an unknown trading platform in the past 7 days. This series of addresses still holds 4,100 BTC (worth $360 million). They have sold a total of 2,300 BTC.
Public information shows that Aleksey Bilyuchenko, from 2011, operated BTC-e together with Alexander Vinnik, a notorious trading platform accused of laundering money for global cybercriminals, including ransomware, identity theft, and drug trafficking.
BTC-e was shut down by law enforcement in 2017. The U.S. Department of Justice accuses him and Aleksandr Verner of hacking Mt. Gox (then the world’s largest Bitcoin trading platform) starting in 2011, stealing approximately 647,000 Bitcoin (leading to Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy). They are charged with conspiracy to launder money and using some of the stolen funds to operate BTC-e.
