The FBI accuses Anatoly Legkodymov of creating the Bitzlato crypto exchange
Legkodymov’s friends and acquaintances call him “Kulibin” - an engineer from Krasnodar who loved to invent, assembled his own miner (the miner, they say, was terrible at first), then he and his partners started a farm in Abkhazia, and when they were “run into”, he transported the equipment to Irkutsk region. Back in 2016, he went to the office by tram, and two years later he created an exchanger with his partners, through which, according to Europol, 2 billion euros worth of cryptocurrencies passed. At the same time, part of the team until the last was from Ukraine - the director and part of the developers. But after the start of the war, the Ukrainian part broke away. Legkodymov was interested in the activities of the “NOD” (Dada, which “will carry out a preventive strike on Washington” and “Russia is a colony of the United States”), but at the same time, to escape mobilization, he went to the United States, where at the border he showed a phone with internal Bitzlato chats.
I published this investigation on the Mirror experimental site - this is a Web3 platform for publishing content, where your account and all donations are linked to cryptocurrency wallets, and publishing content is a “transaction” https://mirror.xyz/nevitalik3.eth/-IxRiDKEl-Ixpk-sNDQE9y1hCLJW9ecPgH2qm25doLQ.
But there is also old school Substack https://nevitalik.substack.com/p/legkodymov.
I called the project Nevitalik3, and periodically I will publish investigations about the cryptocurrency world of Russia on these platforms.
Author: Andrey Zakharov
