Lidings Law Firm has announced the start of receiving requests from Russian and foreign clients of the WEX exchange regarding the reimbursement (return) of assets.
According to the report, Lidings is the only representative of the platform on this issue. Appeals in Russian or English are accepted by e-mail or in WhatsApp and Telegram messengers at the numbers indicated in the press release.
"Lidings Law Firm, its employees and partners, and affiliates do not make payments to clients of the WEX crypto exchange in any form, and any promises of such payments on behalf of or on behalf of Lidings Law Firm are not valid or legitimate. The corresponding payments will be made by World Exchange Services Pte. Ltd. based on the results of studying the documents submitted by the clients of the WEX crypto exchange," the message says.
Representatives of the company added that they do not provide legal advice to clients of the platform.
Earlier, World Exchange Services obtained through the court compensation of 3.1 billion rubles of WEX assets, which it accused the exchange's system administrator Alexei Bilyuchenko (Ivanov) of embezzlement. In this case, the "red administrator" was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and a fine of 500,000 rubles in September 2023.
Bilyuchenko himself called the punishment imposed "too harsh." He also stated that all funds received by the owner of World Exchange Services, Igor Pravdin, "are authorized to personally [...] distribute [...] among the users" of the exchange as compensation for damages.
In April The Savelovsky district court of Moscow has satisfied the claim for the recovery of 18 billion rubles from the "red administrator".
Recall that two former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who were investigating the WEX case, were arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list on charges of receiving a bribe worth 4.9 billion rubles in cryptocurrencies from Bilyuchenko.