Russia seeks to seize $214M in crypto from former official

Russian prosecutors are seeking to seize $184 million in BTC and $30 million in ETH from Georgy Satyukov, a former official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, DL News reported. The assets were allegedly received as a bribe. Satyukov is accused of accepting the payment between March and October 2021 from an operator of the cryptocurrency exchange WEX in exchange for preventing a criminal prosecution. He is currently a fugitive. WEX, which acquired the BTC-e exchange in 2017, shut down in 2018 after its founder, Alexander Vinnik, was arrested on charges of fraud and money laundering.