Vinnik, a Russian nationwide, confronted competing extradition claims from Russia, France and the U.S. He was extradited to France from Greece in 2020, and sentenced to 5 years in jail for cash laundering. This August he was extradited to the U.S. to face allegations of “laptop intrusions and hacking incidents, ransomware scams, identification theft schemes, corrupt public officers and narcotics distribution rings,” based on a 2020 indictment by the California court docket. He’s now on the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, based on the court docket case docket.
