The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (commonly known as Europol) reported that as part of the enforcement action of Bitzlato, an encryption enterprise, the authorities controlled the encryption wallet containing more than US $19 million in cryptocurrency.

In a statement on January 23, the European Police Agency reported that about 46% of the property transferred according to Bitzlato (1 billion euros, US $1.09 billion in distribution) was related to illegal activities. According to the analysis of government departments, Bitzlato won more than 2.1 billion euros of cryptocurrency, including BTC (BTC), Dash (Dash) and Dogecoin (DOGE), most of which were converted into Russian rubles.

"Although it is not illegal to convert encrypted property into currency, the investigation of network fraud operators shows that many illegal and criminal properties are being passed through the website," the European Police Agency said. "Most of the abnormal transactions are related to the physical lines banned by the Office of Other National Property Control Companies (OFAC), and other transactions are related to telecommunications fraud, money laundering, extortion virus and child abuse raw materials."

As part of the behavior of the elite cryptocurrency inspection team, the US authorities announced on January 18 that they arrested Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of Bitzlato, in California. The European Police Agency added that the act involved the application of Danish, Estonian, Spanish, Spanish and Spanish institutions, resulting in the arrest of four other people who had contact with the cryptocurrency trading center - 1 in Estonia and 3 in Spain.

In addition to the arrest, the European Police Agency reported that the authorities also detained a wallet with a value of about 18 million euros (US $19.5 million) and froze more than 100 accounts of other encrypted exchanges with a value of 50 million euros. U. S. authorities also participated in the detention of Bitzlato ECS. It is known that Bitzlato is a "key money laundering problem" related to Russia's illegal finance.

It is reported that after being arrested, Legkotimov was put on trial in the judicial department of the Southern District of California on January 18. At this stage, it is not clear what charges her colleagues in Bitzlato will face in Europe.