{"id":73718,"date":"2023-02-07T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=73718"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:48:40","slug":"media-bitzlato-co-founder-anton-shkurenko-detained-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-bitzlato-co-founder-anton-shkurenko-detained-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Bitzlato co-founder Anton Shkurenko detained in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange, Anton Shkurenko, was detained in Moscow at Interpol&#8217;s request, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/bazabazon\/15719\">Baza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, Shkurenko was sought by French investigators. He is suspected of extortion committed by a group of persons, &#8220;data theft and obtaining access to an automated data processing system&#8221;, as well as money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>An extradition review will be conducted with respect to the Russian national, after which a decision will be made on his extradition to France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">7 February 2023 | 12:55<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Telegram channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mendeleevshina\/2381\">Mendeleevshina!<\/a> denied Shkurenko&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?21\" data-telegram-post=\"mendeleevshina\/2387\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">7 February 2023 | 15:18<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bitzlato representatives published an <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/bzpravo\/93\">official statement<\/a>, in which they did not provide any details about the situation, but merely noted the illegality of extraditing Russian citizens to a foreign state.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The arrest and extradition from Russia to France of Anton Shkurenko, who &#8216;committed a crime&#8217; on French soil, contradicts the rule of law&#8221;, they wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">10 February 2023 | 15:06<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week Shkurenko announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitzlato-co-founder-cites-seized-funds-and-announces-restart\">forthcoming relaunch of the platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, on January 17 the U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-authorities-arrest-founder-of-bitzlato-crypto-platform\">arrested the founder of Bitzlato<\/a> Anatoly Legkodymov on charges of laundering $700 million tied to Hydra. <\/p>\n<p>On January 18 the platform team <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitzlato-reports-breach-after-hack\">announced a hack and withdrawal of part of the funds<\/a>. A few hours later they announced the suspension of service.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, it became known <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitzlato-co-founder-cites-seized-funds-and-announces-restart\">about the arrest<\/a> of former chief executive Mikhail Lunev, marketing manager Alexander Goncharenko, contractor for implementing Monolithos DAO Pavel Lerner and the platform&#8217;s system administrator.<\/p>\n<p>According to Europol, in total Bitzlato converted assets tied to criminal activity amounting to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/europol-bitzlato-converted-more-than-1-billion-of-assets-linked-to-crime\">about \u20ac1 billion ($1.08 billion)<\/a>. Transactions were conducted in Bitcoin, Dash, Litecoin, as well as dollars and Russian rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of the Bitzlato crypto-exchange platform Anton Shkurenko was detained in Moscow at Interpol&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1635,1154,1323,1444,27],"class_list":["post-73718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitzlato","tag-crimes","tag-investigations","tag-law-enforcement","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73720,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions\/73720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}