Five defendants in Cryptex case placed under house arrest

Five defendants in the Cryptex crypto exchange and UAPS payment system case, including Alexander Tereshchenko, Ruslan and Roman Orekhovsky, Elena Polyakova and Artem Lysenko, have been placed under house arrest

all of them were given arrest for a period of 1 month and 28 days. Following searches in St. Petersburg and other regions, 96 people were detained and taken to Moscow to face charges of organizing a criminal community, illegal access to computer information, illegal circulation of payment instruments and illegal banking activities. Earlier, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Cryptex, related payment services and its alleged founder for "providing services to cybercriminals." According to Russian investigators, the turnover of UAPS, Cryptex and more than 30 online services associated with them exceeded 100 billion rubles last year, and according to the US Treasury Department, more than $720 million (66.5 billion rubles) related to cybercrime passed through Cryptex alone. $BTC $ETH