A former FSB (ex-KGB) officer bought the Russian branch of Waves Enterprise crypto company. Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned oligarch, could be behind the deal.“Even poor Salvador realised the importance of digital currencies and adopted bitcoin as a legal tender”, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska wrote in 2021 thus complaining that it was prohibited to use cryptocurrencies for buying goods or services in Russia. Since 2018, Deripaska has been under US sanctions for election meddling. In 2022 he w...

A former FSB (ex-KGB) officer bought the Russian branch of Waves Enterprise crypto company. Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned oligarch, could be behind the deal.“Even poor Salvador realised the importance of digital currencies and adopted bitcoin as a legal tender”, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska wrote in 2021 thus complaining that it was prohibited to use cryptocurrencies for buying goods or services in Russia. Since 2018, Deripaska has been under US sanctions for election meddling. In 2022 he w...