Another #Bitzlato co-founder, Anton Shkurenko, was briefly detained, #questioned, and released by Russian police in February.
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The #creator of the #cryptocurrency exchange #Bitzlato has refuted accusations of involvement in a money-laundering scheme in a #US court.
#Bitzlato was offline for over a month after its website was taken down by #investigators in France. According to Europol, it has exchanged over $1 billion of dirty money.
He also said that French investigators had seized #Bitzlato’s hot wallet with over a third of its assets and #remarked that the withdrawals were going to be partial in the #beginning.
#Bitzlato said in the post. It also insisted it had been used as “a bargaining chip in #backstage games.”
#Bitzlato Allows #Withdrawals After Staying Offline for Weeks
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Based on our data there have practically been no transactions between #LocalBitcoins and #BitZlato since October 2022,
Jukka #Blomberg, chief #marketing officer at #LocalBitcoins, denied any kind of #cooperation or relationship with #Bitzlato in a statement to Cointelegraph in January.