In Poland, the ex-head of the Russian crypto exchange Wex was arrested

The head of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange, which has ceased to exist, Dmitry Vasiliev, was detained in Warsaw, the Polish newspaper Wyborcza reports.
"The ex-head of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange Dmitry Vasiliev, from whose accounts $ 450 million disappeared, is sitting in a Warsaw pre — trial detention center," the publication writes.
The detention took place on August 11, but it became known about it only now. According to Wyborcza, the management of Wex is responsible for the disappearance of money from investors from the European Union, including from Poland. The Warsaw District Court extended Vasiliev's arrest several times – the last time until September 21, the publication says.

At the same time, Poland itself has no claims against Vasiliev, but Kazakhstan is looking for him through Interpol, where a criminal case on fraud has been initiated against him. Two years ago, he was already arrested in Italy, but then he managed to return to Russia. Currently, the issue of the detainee's extradition to Kazakhstan is being considered.

Vasiliev was engaged in servicing trades on the BTC-e exchange, which closed in mid-2017 after the arrest in Greece of one of the alleged administrators of the site, Russian Alexander Vinnik. Soon the exchange was restarted under the name Wex, and Vasiliev became its director and was listed as the sole owner of the World Exchange Services legal entity registered in Singapore.

In the summer of 2018, Wex stopped processing customer requests for withdrawals, and by the end of the year it was completely closed. After the closure of Wex, Vasiliev tried to engage in other crypto projects and, according to media reports, recently lived in St. Petersburg.

According to investigators, in September 2018, he misled a resident of Almaty with the help of a crypto exchange and stole 20 thousand dollars. After being arrested in Italy in the summer of 2019, he was released a few weeks later, reportedly due to errors in the extradition request. Now Kazakhstan is seeking the extradition of the detainee for the second time.