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Court detains BitRiver founder over 1 billion ruble fraud

Published 30 July 2026

A Moscow court has ordered the founder of Russia's largest cryptocurrency mining company to be held in a pretrial detention center for at least two months, escalating a fraud investigation involving nearly 1 billion rubles (approximately $12.5 million).

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