suspected brains behind illegal operations with the virtual currency bitcoin alexander vinick has been arrested in greece on a u.s. warrant without daniel hawkins it's got more on this financial scandal than no one of the specifics that we know about this arrest so far was really like something out of the film ocean's eleven call and when you look at all the details really quite astonishing v we're talking about a pretty serious allegation here four billion dollars in law that over the course of six years by this man vinick he's a russian national in his thirty's now the warrant for his arrest was actually issued in the united states he's been charged with twenty one counts by the u.s. attorney's office in california now if extradited and found guilty of course he could face up to twenty eight years in prison the accusation is that he laundered money for people and groups involved in crimes ranging from computer hacking drug trafficking or somewhere fraud identity theft public corruption all very serious here using. and to cover up his tracks and avoid detection now why did he use the

about six shorting vinick to face those charges they have described him as an internationally sought mastermind of a crime organization now of course the money itself four billion is going to be little harder to track down because it virtually quite literally can be anywhere so . complex investigation to take place here. a new study claims that many german media outlets are failing to pay attention to the public's concerns over the ongoing migrant crisis while consistently putting a positive spin on the influx it found that the coverage has overwhelmingly ignored many of the problems caused by such a high number arriving in a relatively short space of time up until late autumn twenty fifteen hardly any editorials dealt with the concerns fears and resistance of a growing part of the population. the report also reveals that on average new sources carried seventeen articles a day on the migrant crisis during the summer of twenty fifteen many promoting the success stories of those who came and settled it also states that dissenting voices were excluded from the discussion echoing the mes

i stay suspected mastermind behind illegal operations with the virtual currency bitcoin alexander vinick has been arrested in greece on a u.s. war and with me now correspondent daniel hawkins is across this particular financial scandal down there what are the specifics we know about this arrest or some pretty serious allegations here colony's been accused of laundering over four billion dollars of the course of around six years he's been charged with twenty one counts of this by the u.s. attorney's office in california is a russian national in his thirty's if found guilty he could face up to twenty years in jail ok guilty of one of the charges well again this is almost like out of an ocean's eleven film really he's been accused of a series of of criminals that laundering money for groups linked with computer hacking drug trafficking fraud identity theft corruption very serious allegations indeed here and he's accused of being the brains the mastermind behind what's really been an international world conspiracy here really but that's quite a list quite a lot of money how is he supposed to

about make sure to vinick to face those charges they have described him as an internationally sought mastermind of a crime organization now of course the money itself four billion is going to be little harder to track down because it virtually quite literally can be anywhere so . complex investigation to take place here. a report from a human rights group says u.s. led coalition air strikes have killed twenty nine civilians in syria's rock. defacto capital the report from the syrian observatory for human rights has not been confirmed but it's believed that eight children could be among the did this comes as the syrian democratic forces which is backed by u.s. strikes are waging an offensive against the terrorists there tens of thousands of people fled the violence in recent months and according to unicef about half of them are children earlier we discussed the situation with. a representative for unicef and syria. i myself will visit one of the camps in an ethos and i cannot imagine a harsher environment than that especially in the summer months where the heat wave that is really rea

busted for helping launder billions of dollars authorities arrested thirty seven year old alexander vinick this. in greece he's charged with a long list of illegal activities for his role overseeing the exchange known as. activities like ransom where fraud identity theft drug trafficking and public corruption now this is how this scheme reportedly worked criminals would take stolen or extorted coins from victims and transfer that currency to bt see the black market would then convert the bit coy to traditional money usually american dollars or russian roubles the justice department claims the exchange is responsible for laundering more than four billion dollars on the site seven hundred thousand customers around the world while authorities have arrested vinick they believe more people are involved is just the latest cryptocurrency crackdown by federal authorities this month to black market science have been shut down that's alphabet and the market and we hear about these authorities cracking down on some black market operations but still there's been an explosion of interest in crypto curr

perform our maintenance will be back in five to ten days whether that's linked somehow to the arrest of vinick we just can't say but certainly that could be the case if we were to speculate now what we also do know he's obviously been arrested in greece the greeks are negotiating his extradition with the americans and the greek police have described him as a internationally sort lost the mind of a crime organization so certainly seems to be a big fish for security services. about the money though where it's got obviously it's not physically actually there is no assets to recover because it's all digital you stored so really it could be anywhere so quite a complex case here to be decided show us what you think we do know is going to keep a lot of lawyers very busy for a long time right don't hold concerns very much for that. the russian lawyer at the center of a scandal involving team trump and ties to the kremlin says a prominent investor has lied to congress we've got the details on that for you after the break. the future is to strengthen the partnership between the member states and the sec