Soon after BTC-e stopped operations, its successor, WEX, appealed to the BTC-e users, offering to resume trading from their accounts and also to get refunds for their lost funds. However, WEX shut down, too, a year later, the victim of internal conflict and in-fighting. WEX wallets were drained of millions of dollars worth of crypto, CoinDesk reported at the time.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/03/24/bitcoin-from-defunct-btc-e-on-the-move-again-report/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines