Russian prosecutors bid to seize $30m in ex-investigator’s WEX ‘crypto bribe’ assets – DL News
- Ex-Interior Ministry official Satyukov is still on the run.
- Officials say he took bribes worth $217 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- Prosecutors look to seize millions of dollars’ worth of cash, cars, and property.
The Russian prosecution service wants to seize a laundry list of luxury assets from a missing secret service official accused of accepting millions of dollars in Bitcoin and Ethereum bribes from the operators of the now-defunct WEX crypto exchange.
Prosecutors say former Ministry of Internal Affairs employee Georgy Satyukov took bribes worth $184 million in Bitcoin and $30 million in Ethereum between March and October 2021.
Investigators have identified $29.6 million worth of assets linked to Satyukov’s alleged bribes, the…
