{"id":93487,"date":"2026-01-23T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=93487"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:10:11","slug":"russia-declares-whitebit-an-undesirable-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-declares-whitebit-an-undesirable-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Declares WhiteBit an Undesirable Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/epp.genproc.gov.ru\/ru\/gprf\/mass-media\/news\/main\/e8358714\/\">has declared<\/a> the activities of the cryptocurrency exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-whitebit\">WhiteBit<\/a>, along with its affiliated and subsidiary structures, undesirable within the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cThis European cryptocurrency trading platform is used by cryptocurrency exchanges and exchangers for various &#8216;grey&#8217; schemes to withdraw funds from Russia, as well as other illegal activities,\u201d the agency&#8217;s website states.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of writing, the exchange had not issued any public comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WhiteBit was founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Vladimir Nosov and is registered in Lithuania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April 2025, Roskomnadzor <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bestchange-faces-another-block-in-russia\">blocked<\/a> the domains of the crypto exchange aggregator BestChange.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office has declared the activities of the cryptocurrency exchange WhiteBit, along with its affiliated and subsidiary structures, undesirable within the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Russia declares WhiteBit undesirable; linked to 'grey' schemes.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,1166,27],"class_list":["post-93487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"194","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Russia declares WhiteBit undesirable; linked to 'grey' schemes.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93487","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=93487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93489,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93487\/revisions\/93489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}