伦敦，10月27日电 —— 一名俄罗斯IT专家因资助恐怖主义罪被判处13年监禁，此前加密货币交易所币安向莫斯科提供了他向乌克兰募捐活动捐款的详细信息。
LONDON, Oct 27 - A Russian IT specialist has been sentenced to 13 years in jail on charges of financing terrorism after the cryptocurrency exchange Binance passed details to Moscow of his donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns.
据法院声明，第二西部区军事法院周一判定49岁的尤里·别连基（Yuri Belenkiy）有罪，判处其有期徒刑三年，并处严管监狱十年。
The 2nd Western District Military Court on Monday convicted 49-year-old Yuri Belenkiy and sentenced him to three years in prison plus 10 years in a strict-regime penal colony, according to a court statement.
别连基持有保加利亚居留许可，去年9月飞往莫斯科探亲时被拘留，自那时起一直被羁押。据法院称，他否认指控。
Belenkiy, who has a Bulgarian residence permit, was detained in September last year when he flew to Moscow for a visit, and has been in custody since. He denied the charges, according to the court.
据路透社查阅的俄罗斯执法文件，别连基回应网络呼吁，帮助为乌克兰士兵购买医疗设备，从其币安账户向乌克兰军方转账。部分款项汇往亚速旅或亚速团，这对莫斯科而言是个特别的眼中钉。
Belenkiy had responded to online appeals to help buy medical equipment for Ukrainian soldiers by transferring money from his Binance accounts to the Ukrainian military, according to Russian law enforcement documents seen by Reuters. Some payments went to the Azov Brigade or Azov Regiment, a particular bete noire for Moscow.
币安接受俄罗斯调查人员请求 同一文件显示，去年币安应俄罗斯方面请求，向俄调查人员提供了别连基的交易记录，包括向乌克兰募捐活动转账的记录，这些记录对起诉他起到了关键作用，路透社8月曾报道此事。
BINANCE ACCEPTED RUSSIAN INVESTIGATORS' REQUEST The same documents showed that Binance provided Russian investigators with Belenkiy's transaction history last year, including records of transfers to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns, in response to a Russian request, and that the records were instrumental in prosecuting him, Reuters reported in August.
根据记录，别连基响应流亡俄罗斯、批评克里姆林宫并支持乌克兰的阿尔卡季·巴布琴科（Arkady Babchenko）的网络呼吁，向乌克兰军方汇款700多美元。
According to the records, Belenkiy sent more than $700 to the Ukrainian military in response to an online appeal by Arkady Babchenko, an exiled Russian critic of the Kremlin who supports Ukraine.
人权组织“第一部门”（First Department）的律师叶夫根尼·斯米尔诺夫（Yevgeny Smirnov）表示：“币安的回复是别连基刑事案件中的关键证据。”该组织协助在俄罗斯面临政治动机起诉的人员。
"The response from Binance serves as key evidence in the criminal case against Belenkiy," said Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer with the rights group First Department, which assists people facing politically motivated prosecutions in Russia.
监督此类起诉的维权人士称，近年来已有数十名俄罗斯人因通过加密货币平台向当局后来认定为极端主义或恐怖主义的事业捐款而被定罪。许多人使用加密货币是因为他们相信这样可以隐藏身份。
Rights advocates who monitor such prosecutions say dozens of Russians have been convicted in recent years for donations made through cryptocurrency platforms to causes that authorities later classified as extremist or terrorist. Many used cryptocurrency because they believed it would keep their identities secret.
周二被问及这一判决时，币安让路透社参考其此前的一份声明，其中称该交易所“不制定或执行任何司法管辖区的法律，不确定指控，也不决定任何政府如何在法律程序中使用信息”。该公司表示，不对保密的执法请求或个别案件发表评论。
Asked on Tuesday about the sentence, Binance referred Reuters to a previous statement in which it said the exchange "does not make or enforce the laws of any jurisdiction, determine charges, or decide how any government uses information in legal proceedings". It said it does not comment on confidential law-enforcement requests or individual cases.
专门从事加密货币监管的律师迈克·贝斯特罗夫8月告诉路透社，币安在2023年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以及随后西方实施制裁后离开了俄罗斯，该公司没有义务提供贝连基的数据。
A lawyer who specialises in crypto regulation, Mike Bystrov, told Reuters in August that Binance, which left Russia in 2023 following Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent imposition of Western sanctions, had been under no obligation to provide Belenkiy's data.
他说，事实上，由于贝连基拥有保加利亚居民身份，根据欧盟数据保护法，币安可能有义务不提供这些数据。
He said it might, in fact, have had obligations under European Union data-protection law not to do so because of Belenkiy's Bulgarian residency status.