A BBC investigation has claimed that Russia’s FSB intelligence agency may have played a role in the disappearance of $450 million worth of crypto from the Wex exchange. The Wex exchange, previously known as BTC-E, collapsed in 2018 after user wallets were frozen last July, with many claiming the exchange’s founders had pulled an exit scam. However, a BBC Russia investigation has revealed that the exchange may have been at the centre of a much more sinister plot orchestrated by FSB officials, whose ex-officer Anton Nemkin allegedly seized keys to the exchange’s cold wallets. FSB officer demands funds Following the arrest and questioning of the exchange’s co-founder Aleksey Bilyuchenko, FSB officers reportedly demanded that private keys granting access to the

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