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Ian Sofronov

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[✓ FACT-CHECKED]· reviewed once · last review 27 Oct 2026

Last changed 2026-10-27 · Fact-check review — Fact-check review (verdict: approve): the reviewer checked the page's claims against its sources; the trust score did not change. Version history →

Why this score
Every page starts at65
The subject's own conduct-65
Problems around it, caused by others-2.3
Long-running+10
Sum8
  • No established finding that it defrauded anyone, so it stays out of the red band (26 or above).

Score: 26/100 (kept between 0 and 100)

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Page reliability: Fact-checked 2026-10-27 · 9 of 9 claims confirmed

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Summary

No verifiable public record — court filing, regulatory release, or mainstream news report — was found linking a person named "Ian Sofronov" (or close variants "Ivan Sofronov"/"Yan Sofronov") to Gotbit, the U.S. Department of Justice's crypto market-manipulation case ("Operation Token Mirrors"), or any other crypto fraud matter. The real, well-documented DOJ/SEC action against the market maker Gotbit names founder Aleksei Andriunin and directors Fedor Kedrov and Qawi Jalili as defendants; none of the primary or secondary sources reviewed for this report mention a "Sofronov." A request to merge a page describing "Ian Sofronov" as a Gotbit-linked DOJ fugitive could not be corroborated and is noted here as an unverified claim rather than a finding.

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□Ian Sofronov (Gotbit — DOJ Fugitive)□Ian Sofronov
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Timeline(5 events)

9 October 2024

DOJ and SEC announce charges against Gotbit and other market makers as part of a broader crypto market-manipulation operation; Gotbit directors Fedor Kedrov and Qawi Jalili are charged.

DOJ press release

31 October 2024

Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin is charged in a superseding indictment with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud.

DOJ press release / Decrypt

25 February 2025

Andriunin, arrested in Portugal in October 2024, is extradited to the United States to face charges.

DOJ press release

March 2025

Andriunin pleads guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud.

The Block

13 June 2025

Andriunin is sentenced to eight months in prison and one year of supervised release; Gotbit is ordered to forfeit about $23 million in cryptocurrency and dissolve.

The Block / DOJ
Provenance & Audit Trail
Recorded on Solana ✓Verify on-chain7 Wayback Archives

Decision Log

  • #4review approveRecorded on Solana ✓10/27/2026, 6:37:16 PM
    slot 462174724 · hash 8t8cxHmeYZrXRjJcmFJWsokfNvyF7EuGEWNHogoJSsFi
  • #3reviewRecorded on Solana ✓10/27/2026, 6:37:16 PM
    slot 462174720 · hash FLeLxqGADHTQakUnfAWyH1qAePFWzb5zjoDm24mT9gtx
  • #2rescore+18Recorded on Solana ✓10/10/2026, 6:40:51 PM
    slot 455359551 · hash 25Xds6nwP4hD9gtNTrGwseFaDLhvRrJwdXiPALd97qNE
  • #1publishRecorded on Solana ✓9/24/2026, 12:15:20 PM
    slot 450026000 · hash AdWDvrzAUeKg88JjdkF91emKnop7Q6iHrkq43fLoxbom

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 7 of 10 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

Fact-checked 2026-10-279 claims checked0 corrections pending0 applied⛓ anchoredSee findings →
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model: claude-code-investigator

generated: 9/24/2026, 12:11:18 PM

last updated: 10/27/2026, 6:37:16 PM

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