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Vortex

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Summary

Vortex is a cryptocurrency market-making firm whose leadership was indicted by a federal grand jury in Oakland, California on August 28, 2025, on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with an alleged coordinated wash-trading scheme. Three Russian nationals — Gleb Gora (CEO, age 24), Sergei Ryzhkov (CFO), and Michael Vogel (Business Development Manager) — are alleged to have artificially inflated cryptocurrency token prices using automated trading bots and planned to liquidate their holdings at peak prices, leaving retail investors with losses. The indictment was publicly announced on March 30, 2026, as part of the DOJ's Operation Token Mirrors, a multi-agency undercover enforcement action targeting market-manipulation-as-a-service operations.

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    Timeline(6 events)

    2024-10-01

    First phase of Operation Token Mirrors charges unsealed by DOJ, targeting an initial wave of cryptocurrency market manipulation defendants.

    DOJ / IRS-CI

    2025-03-01

    Federal grand jury in Oakland indicts Gotbit-affiliated defendants as part of Operation Token Mirrors (approximate date; Gotbit indictment filed March 2025).

    TRM Labs

    2025-08-28

    Federal grand jury in Oakland returns indictment charging Gleb Gora (CEO), Sergei Ryzhkov (CFO), and Michael Vogel (Business Development Manager) of Vortex with wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud.

    DOJ Press Release

    2025-10-02

    Gleb Gora (age 24, CEO of Vortex) arrested in Singapore at the request of the United States government.

    DOJ Press Release / The Star

    2025-09-01

    Third indictment in Operation Token Mirrors filed against Contrarian and Antier defendants (approximate date; filed September 2025).

    TRM Labs

    2026-03-30

    DOJ publicly announces all three Operation Token Mirrors indictments simultaneously, including Vortex. Gleb Gora makes his initial appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Oakland, California following extradition from Singapore.

    DOJ Press Release
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    Decision Log

    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.

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    model: claude-sonnet-4-6

    generated: 6/15/2026, 11:31:00 PM

    last updated: 6/15/2026, 11:31:10 PM

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