Europol arrests 5 Bitzlato senior executives

European Union police company (Europol) stated it arrested 5 senior executives of the sanctioned Bitzlato trade.

The EU company stated Jan. 23 that the folks arrested embrace the CEO, monetary director, and advertising and marketing director in Spain.

The arrest was made following eight home searches throughout Spain, Cyprus, Portugal, and the US.

In course of the home search, Europol stated it seized about €18 million ($19.5 million) price of cryptocurrency and froze over 100 crypto accounts holding property price about €50 million ($54.3 million).

Europol added that Bitzlato facilitated the laundering of varied crypto-assets, together with 119 Bitcoin price €2.1 billion.

Additional evaluation by Europol disclosed that about 46% of the property exchanged via Bitzlato price roughly €1 billion ($1.08 billion) had hyperlinks to felony actions.

On Jan 18, Bitzlato’s founder Anatoly Legkodymov was arrested by the US authorities for operating a money-transmitting enterprise. As well as, main crypto trade Binance was named as a prime three recipient of Bitzlato’s unlawful funds.