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Russian Vinnik back in Moscow after prisoner swap, news agency says

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Alexander Vinnik , convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering, arrives in Moscow .

He thanked President Vladimir Putin and others for arranging the exchange, state news agency RIA says.

He said he had flown on a U.S. plane that stopped in Poland and not Turkey as his lawyer had said.

Vinnick operated a cryptocurrency exchange, BTC-e, through which he was suspected of funneling $4 billion in proceeds from cybercrime.

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