After its recent vow to return customer funds, BTC-e has issued a new statement informing its users that it has gained control of databases and bitcoin wallets.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently imposed $110,003,314 civil money penalty on BTC-e for willfully violating U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) laws. This followed the arrest of Russian national Alexander Vinnik, who according to FinCEN, was one of the operators of BTC-e.
Law enforcement authorities seized all equipment, servers, and domain of BTC-e last month. At the time of writing, the BTC-e website says that the domain has been seized pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Last week, BTC-e declared that Vinnik was never the head or employee of its service. In addition, it assured its users that it will return the funds to everyone.
In its recent statement, the exchange said:
“We were able to access our databases and wallets, at the moment we are evaluating data and balances on [coin], this information will be made public by the end of next week.”
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