{"id":75873,"date":"2023-03-20T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75873"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:06:25","slug":"bitzlato-users-gain-partial-withdrawal-access-on-web-and-mobile-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitzlato-users-gain-partial-withdrawal-access-on-web-and-mobile-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitzlato users gain partial withdrawal access on web and mobile platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From March 20, users of the Bitzlato crypto-exchange platform&#8217;s web version and app, whose infrastructure was seized by the French prosecutor&#8217;s office, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/bitzlato_newss\/46\">gained access<\/a> to partial withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>Clients can withdraw up to 50% of their Bitcoin balance. The minimum withdrawal is 0.001 BTC, the fee 0.0003 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>Withdrawals are processed via the Telegram bot @bz_phoenix_bot. After pressing start \u2192 Web\/Mobile, the user must provide the email used to log in to the old Bitzlato account. After verification, a transfer code is generated and sent to the specified email address as a link.<\/p>\n<p>If the address is incorrect, the procedure can be repeated after 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the exchange emphasised that withdrawals are available only for accounts with a known email and not tied to a Telegram ID. Transfers can only be made to the account that requested the operation. After withdrawal, the user account is deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>At present all assets on Bitzlato are marked as high risk by <span data-descr=\"anti-money laundering\" class=\"old_tooltip\">AML<\/span> services. As a result, the exchange team advised clients to use platforms without anti-money-laundering checks and cold wallets, or withdraw to a card after the P2P platform launches.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/bitzlato_newss\/36\">poll<\/a>, conducted among 3,280 respondents in Bitzlato&#8217;s news Telegram group:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>30% of users withdrew funds without issue;<\/li>\n<li>3% encountered temporary asset blocks;<\/li>\n<li>4% still have funds blocked;<\/li>\n<li>12% cannot decide on a withdrawal service;<\/li>\n<li>51% are awaiting the opening of the P2P service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given that the poll did not include a &#8220;see results&#8221; option, its results may diverge from the real situation. Nevertheless, Bitzlato representatives told ForkLog that even so, the obtained statistics align with internal data.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, 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 linked to the Hydra darknet marketplace. The following day, the service&#8217;s operation was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitzlato-reports-breach-after-hack\">suspended<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, reports emerged <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitzlato-co-founder-cites-seized-funds-and-announces-restart\">of<\/a> the arrest of former chief executive Mikhail Lunyev, marketing manager Alexander Goncharenko, contractor for Monolithos DAO Pavel Lerner, and the platform&#8217;s systems administrator.<\/p>\n<p>As ForkLog later quoted lawyers, all those arrested &#8220;were not part of the team but were contractors or consultants; some of them had never participated in the company&#8217;s core activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Europol, in total the exchange converted assets tied to criminal activity worth <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/europol-bitzlato-converted-more-than-1-billion-of-assets-linked-to-crime\">around \u20ac1 billion ($1.08 billion)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March 20, users of the Bitzlato web version and app gained access to partial withdrawals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75874,"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":[1635,1257],"class_list":["post-75873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitzlato","tag-currency-exchanges"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75873","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=75873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75875,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75873\/revisions\/75875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}