俄罗斯一家军事法院以资助“恐怖主义”罪判处一名IT专家13年监禁，此前加密货币交易所币安向俄罗斯调查人员提供了该人向乌克兰筹款活动捐款的详细信息。
A Russian military court has sentenced an IT specialist to 13 years in prison for financing “terrorism” after the cryptocurrency exchange Binance gave Russian investigators details of his donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns.
根据法院的一份声明，第二西部地区军事法院周一判定49岁的尤里·别连基犯罪成立，判处其三年监禁，随后在严管监狱服刑10年。
The 2nd Western District Military Court on Monday convicted 49-year-old Yuri Belenkiy and sentenced him to three years in prison followed by 10 years in a strict-regime penal colony, according to a court statement.
俄罗斯国家通讯社塔斯社报道，别连基曾任DiHouse公司IT总监，检方曾请求判处14年监禁。他同时被处以50万卢布（约合6300美元）罚金。
Russian state news agency TASS reported that Belenkiy is a former IT director of the company DiHouse and that prosecutors had asked for 14 years. He was also fined 500,000 roubles ($6,300).
持有保加利亚居留许可的别连基于去年9月飞抵莫斯科探亲时被捕。据塔斯社报道，他否认指控，其辩护团队将对判决提出上诉。
Belenkiy, who holds a Bulgarian residence permit, was detained in September last year when he flew to Moscow for a visit. He denied the charges, and his defence will appeal the verdict, according to TASS.
据俄罗斯卫星通讯社报道，法院认定，在2022年8月至2024年3月期间，别连基通过加密货币进行了15笔转账，总额超过12万卢布（约合1500美元），用于资助乌克兰武装部队和亚速营，后者被俄罗斯指定为“恐怖组织”。他使用了流亡俄罗斯记者、克里姆林宫批评者阿尔卡季·巴布琴科发布的支付信息。卫星通讯社补充称，别连基已被列入俄罗斯金融监管机构的“恐怖分子和极端分子”名单。
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, the court found that between August 2022 and March 2024, Belenkiy made 15 cryptocurrency transfers worth more than 120,000 roubles ($1,500) to fund Ukraine’s armed forces and the Azov battalion, which Russia designates a “terrorist” organisation. He used payment details posted by Arkady Babchenko, an exiled Russian journalist and Kremlin critic. RIA added that Belenkiy is on the Russian financial monitoring agency’s list of “terrorists and extremists”.
路透社看到的俄罗斯执法文件显示，币安应俄罗斯请求向调查人员提供了别连基的交易记录。文件还显示，这些记录在起诉他时发挥了关键作用。
Russian law enforcement documents seen by the Reuters news agency showed that Binance gave investigators Belenkiy’s transaction history in response to a Russian request. The documents also showed that the records were instrumental in prosecuting him.
“币安的回复是别连基刑事案件中的关键证据，”协助面临政治动机起诉的俄罗斯人的权利组织“第一部门”的律师叶夫根尼·斯米尔诺夫告诉路透社。
“The response from Binance serves as key evidence in the criminal case against Belenkiy,” Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer with the rights group First Department, which assists people facing politically motivated prosecutions in Russia, told Reuters.
然而，据塔斯社报道，在法庭上，辩方质疑这些数据是否真正来自币安，并指出该交易所自2022年以来未与俄罗斯合作。
In court, however, the defence questioned whether the data really came from Binance, noting that the exchange has not cooperated with Russia since 2022, TASS reported.
当被问及判决时，币安将路透社引向此前的一份声明，声明称该交易所“不制定或执行任何司法管辖区的法律，不决定指控，也不决定任何政府如何在法律程序中使用信息”。声明称，币安不对机密执法请求或个别案件发表评论。
Asked about the sentence, Binance referred Reuters to a previous statement saying 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.
币安于2023年退出俄罗斯市场，此前莫斯科对乌克兰发动全面入侵，西方随之实施制裁。专门从事加密货币监管的律师迈克·比斯特罗夫8月告诉路透社，该交易所并无义务提供别连基的数据。比斯特罗夫表示，由于别连基拥有保加利亚居留身份，币安实际上可能根据欧盟数据保护法被禁止提供该数据。
Binance pulled out of the Russian market in 2023, after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions that followed. Mike Bystrov, a lawyer specialising in crypto regulation, told Reuters in August that the exchange had been under no obligation to provide Belenkiy’s data. Because of Belenkiy’s Bulgarian residency, Bystrov said, Binance may in fact have been obliged under European Union data protection law not to do so.
“第一部门”在最近的一份报告中称，2025年根据该国叛国罪和间谍罪提起的所有指控中，约有10%与向乌克兰组织捐款有关。该组织表示，当局既追踪加密货币转账，也追踪银行支付，并继续就早在2022年作出的捐款立案。
First Department claimed in a recent report that about 10 percent of all charges brought under the country’s treason and espionage laws in 2025 were linked to donations to Ukrainian organisations. The group said authorities track cryptocurrency transfers as well as bank payments, and continue to open cases over donations made as early as 2022.