After years of extradition debates, Bitcoin (BTC) launderer Alexander Vinnik has lastly been sentenced by a French court docket.

In accordance with a Dec. 7 report by Novaya Gazeta, Vinnik has been sentenced to 5 years in jail for “cash laundering as a part of an organized prison group and offering false details about the origin of the proceeds” along with a positive of 100,000 euro ($121,000).

In accordance with the BBC, the court docket partially dropped costs associated to the ransomware often known as Locky. At publishing time, on-line reviews don’t specify whether or not Vinnik’s sentence is said to his alleged senior function at now-defunct crypto change BTC-e.

Vinnik beforehand denied his involvement at BTC-e, reportedly claiming that he was simply an worker. He mentioned that his month-to-month wage at BTC-e amounted to 10,000 euro.

As beforehand reported, Vinnik is allegedly the mastermind behind a world money-laundering scheme that had processed over $4 billion price of capital flows by means of BTC-e.

Colloquially often known as “Mr. Bitcoin,” Vinnik was first arrested in Greece in July 2017 for allegedly participating within the operations of BTC-e. Because the arrest, plenty of jurisdictions have sought Vinnik’s extradition, together with america and Russia, the place Vinnik is a citizen. Vinnik was extradited to France in 2018 on costs of fraud and cash laundering.

In June 2020, the New Zealand police reportedly recovered $90 million related to the case in opposition to Vinnik.