⛓ Bitcoin suspect could shed light on Mueller’s Russian targets

A cryptocurrency expert languishing in a Greek jail may have a vantage point on how Russians in U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s crosshairs used Bitcoin ($BTC) to obscure their money trail. The expert, Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, was detained last year after U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco accused him of supervising a digital currency exchange that helped criminals launder billions of dollars. The exchange has allegedly handled Bitcoins traced to Fancy Bear, one of the names for the Russian military intelligence officers who Mueller separately accused of stealing and releasing Democrats’ emails to sway votes in the 2016 elections.