Golden Finance reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has charged Aleksei Andriunin, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency financial services company Gotbit, with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation. Russian citizen Aleksei Andriunin, who resides in Portugal, was arrested on October 16. Court documents reveal that Gotbit provided market manipulation services, creating artificial trading volume for several cryptocurrency companies (including those based in the U.S.) to get cryptocurrencies listed on CoinMarketCap. Gotbit conducted millions of dollars in fraudulent trades on behalf of clients and earned tens of millions of dollars from these fraudulent services. Andriunin transferred millions of dollars in profits from Gotbit to his personal Binance account.