My question is, did LE actually seize the wallets? The BTC-e website was up for a full day before the seizure message was posted up. This would give the second admin ample time to bunker down and secure the cold wallets. I'm quite curious if they are even aware of whom he is. If the website is now seized, I'd imagine they have a good idea at least, but possibly he is "out of reach" in a country with no extradition laws with the USA. I'd imagine he is the one holding the keys to the kingdom, not LE.

If the government has your coins, there is a decent chance some of you will be able to submit info to prove your ownership of coins. The only people I see even having a remote chance of getting their coins back are people outside of US jurisdiction that never had to apply to US law in the first place. These people would have to prove ownership by signing a message from a deposit address used to fund BTC-e as well as prove ownership of the IP used to log into the account.

If the BTC-e 2nd admin is smart none of that information exists anymore. He had a full day to clean house & wipe all historic information. It depends on if LE had an image of the servers before Alexander Vinnik's arrest was made public.

We will have to wait & see if LE announces the seizure of coins in the first place. So far they have been tight lipped about any sort of coin seizure in regards to BTC-e, which leads me to believe they have jack shit haha.

I'm not sure, it would be a stupid thing to do because he will be hunted for the rest of his life. Many many people have a lot of funds there and some of them aren't the types you want hunting you.
And if this is a LE action I think they prepared it very well and I assume they got hold of all the servers and all administration at the same time, so even the other admins probably don't have the private keys anymore.
There was a strange transaction of ETH yesterday from a BTCe address I heared, but only ETH??

Blockchain transactions can't be erased, only BTC-e account info could. But if LE have the servers that is allso secured.
I hope we will hear more news in the next days...

i hope so, i was collecting some ether on there by mining it from ethermine to cash out to bitcoin and id like to get it back.

Or more like he is running off with the coins now that their criminal activities have come to an end.

I don't believe the US will confiscate bitcoins from anyone who hasn't committed any illegal act as that would be illegal on their part.

I don't know. If Vinnik was actually involved in the criminal activities, then the chances are that Aleksey was also associated with at least some of the crimes. Anyway, he won't be able to stay aloof for too long. May be within a few days, we will hear about his arrest.

Well Authorities have confirm that Alexander Vinnik is involve with the crime that is why he is arrested with the now fugitive Aleksey, said in this news http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/07/26/btc-e-160-million-move-russian-arrested-laundering-4-billion-bitcoin, the one thing that simply not appealing to bitcoin users is if their money would surely return to them, I think the Authorities should return it, let's just see what will happen to this news, I think there is a petition going on regarding this matter.

Well, on one side they would still be running from the FBI. And on the other, some very angry Russians (rumor has it, FSB and mob figures). I highly doubt they can live in peace anytime soon. As much it sucks to lose money here, I'd rather that than to be the site admins right now...

i think at this point if the admins doesnt have a copy of the wallets, the government will not give anyone their coins back.. they will get auctioned off..

website seized already

no more comeback, take heart my friends if your money was in.