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Binance handover led to 13-year sentence for Ukraine donation
Original: Binance gave Russia data on IT worker jailed 13 years for $700 Ukraine donation
Russian IT worker Yury Belenky has been sentenced to 13 years in prison over a roughly $700 cryptocurrency donation to Ukraine's armed forces. According to Meduza, Russian authorities identified him using data handed over by the Binance crypto exchange. The case has drawn attention to how exchanges' user data can be used in political prosecutions.
Why now: People are discussing the case because a major exchange's data was reportedly used to jail someone for a small wartime donation.
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