Source Bits.Media: Bitzlato co-founder remains at large – Bits Media

One of the two creators of the Bitzlato crypto exchange Anton Shkurenko is actually, contrary to media reports, was not detained, Bits.Media's own sources assure.

"Anton remains free, this is the only, what can I say right now", - insists the interlocutor Bits.Media, well -familiar with the situation.

Sources do not refute interest in the figure of the Bitzlato co -founder of French law enforcement agencies, However, they are sure: The Code of Criminal Procedure allows the detention of a citizen of the Russian Federation only if a criminal case against him was initiated in Russia itself, And nothing is known about such a case.

Representatives of the exchanger himself insist, referring to approximately the same norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure, what, literally:

“Arrest and issuance from Russia to France Anton Shkarenko, who "committed a crime" in France, contradicts the laws of law ".

The detention of one of the two creators of Bitzlato became known on Tuesday, 7 february, In the afternoon from the Baza Telegram channel close to Russian law enforcement agencies.

The second co -founder, Anatoly Light Dyamov, was detained in the United States in mid -January at the request of the FBI. The American investigation insists, that Bitzlato is associated with a large -scale laundering of money for hundreds of millions of dollars.