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Binance processed $ 346 million for the Bitzlato crypto exchange, reports claims-Exchanges
The Binance cryptocurrency exchange has reportedly processed crypto transactions worth almost $ 346 million for Bitzlato Coin trading platform, which was concluded as part of an international law enforcement operation. US authorities say that the world's largest trading platform for digital assets was one of the most important opponents of Bitzlato in Russian property. Blockchain data show that Binance has moved over 20,000 for Bitzlato since 2018 The global market leader in the crypto trading sector, Binance, allegedly transferred cryptocurrency worth almost $ 346 million for the Hong Kong company Bitzlato, reported Reuters, citing data from Chainalysis. Bitzlato was a little -known stock exchange until she ...
Binance processed $ 346 million for the Bitzlato crypto exchange, reports claims-Exchanges
The cryptocurrency exchange Binance has reportedly crypto transactions worth almost $ 346 million for Bitzlato processed Coin trading platform, which was closed as part of an international law enforcement operation. US authorities say that the world's largest trading platform for digital assets was one of the most important opponents of Bitzlato in Russian property.
Blockchain data show that Binance has been moved over 20,000 bitcoin for Bitzlato since 2018
The global market leader in the crypto trade sector, Binance, allegedly referred cryptocurrency worth almost $ 346 million for the Bitzlato company based in Hong Kong, Reuters reported on data from Chainalysis. Bitzlato was a little-known stock exchange until it was recently targeted, which the US authorities referred to as the "significant blow to the ecosystem of cryptocaraminality".
Last week the Ministry of Justice announced that the co-founder and majority shareholder of Bitzlato, the Russian citizen Anatoly Legkodymov, who lives in China, was arrested in Miami and accused of doing a non-licensed money change business that processed $ 700 million in illegal funds.
On Wednesday, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) of the US Ministry of Finance announced that Binance was the only large crypto exchange that had made with Bitzlato transactions and one of its most important counterparties. Among the others was the Darknet marketplace Hydra peer-to-peer (p2p) exchange localbit. Crypto-investment fraud Finiko Russia's largest financial pyramid in recent years.
The Bitzlato registered in Hong Kong, which is better known to Russian -speaking users, was a "primary money laundering problem" in connection with Russian illegal financing. The office announced no details about the scope of the transactions of these platforms with Bitzlato, but said that financial institutions would ban to transfer funds to the stock exchange without indicating the companies that are related.
according to data, which was compiled by the blockchain forensic company Chainalysis and viewed by Reuters, Binance moved over 20,000 bitcoin for Bitzlato worth $ 345.8 million at the time of transactions between May 2018 and his closure. Bitcoin for around $ 175 million was transferred to Binance in the reporting period from Bitzlato, which made Binance his biggest receiving counterpart, the report also says.
largest crypto exchange says that she supported Bitzlato's examination
Binance "made considerable support" to support the international law enforcement authorities to support their investigations against Bitzlato, a spokesman for the Stock Exchange of the Stock Exchange by e-mail, but refused to reveal further details about the business of the crypto giant with Bitzlato or his cooperation with the authorities.
The localbitcoins based in Finland said that it never had "any cooperation or relationship" with Bitzlato, but admitted that some P2P dealers "had also acted on the P2P market of Bitzlato", but pointed out that there had been no transactions between them since October 2022.
Reuters noticed that there was no evidence that Binance, localbitcoins or finiko have violated Bitzlato against laws or regulations. It could also not be determined whether Binance's business with Bitzlato is currently being checked. At the same time, the campaign led by the USA comes against Bitzlato, while the Ministry of Justice is investigating Binance for possible money laundering and violations of sanctions.
Several European countries are also involved in the investigation against Bitzlato. Last week's announcement revealed that the French law enforcement authorities dismantled the digital infrastructure of the platform in the country and confiscated their website. On Monday, Europol that four other members of the exchange team were arrested in Spain and Cyprus.
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