The platform was eventually taken over by Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, and funds from BTC-e were used for the war in Donbas, under the control of the FSB.

Aug 13, 2025 · On June 30, 2025, the Department of Justice filed a civil asset forfeiture complaint against all assets seized from the exchange BTC-e back in 2017.

May 3, 2024 · BTC-e was one of the primary ways by which cyber criminals around the world transferred, laundered, and stored the criminal proceeds of their illegal activities.

Jul 30, 2017 · BTC-e was an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that was shut down by U.S. law enforcement in 2017, based on allegations that the accounts were used by criminals to …

Jul 21, 2025 · Since August 2017, innocent investors from around the globe have faced significant challenges in reclaiming their seized cryptocurrency from the BTC-e exchange, following the …

Jul 9, 2025 · The targeted assets, referred to as Defendant Properties, include cryptocurrency held in BTC-e’s wallets at the time of its seizure in July 2017, such as Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, …

Jul 27, 2017 · BTC-e is an internet-based, foreign-located money transmitter that exchanges fiat currency as well as the convertible virtual currencies Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, Novacoin, …

BTC-e was a bitcoin exchange that allowed trading bitcoins for fiat or altcoins. It was regarded as a "Big Four" exchange, [1] having once handled 2.5% of all Bitcoin exchange volume.

Oct 8, 2024 · BTC-e was one of the most infamous Bitcoin exchanges in the cryptocurrency world, operating in the shadows from 2011 until its dramatic takedown by U.S. authorities in …

Mar 24, 2023 · Someone transferred 10,000 BTC from a previously sleeping wallet identified as holding the treasury of the failed BTC-e exchange. The news comes weeks after U.S. …