That seems extremely clumsy if not borderline untrustworthy from the escrow provider. I've vaguely heard about this story, but i can't remember what mixer/escrower this was about?
Do you, by any chance, have some sources?
Seems like the whole point of the escrow in this case was to NOT give back the coins... Huh.
It was BITMIXCOIN and the escrower was zazarb.
Zazarb announces that he returned BITMIXCOINs Bitcoins.
I want to announce that I have no longer store escrow amount.
Remaining 5BTC has been sent back recently to provided address by bitmixcoin.io
txid 92ed177c6db030a06b777ceecddfb40edd5f074ada179cae3df306266a39a982
A few days later users started to post in the mixer thread saying that they got scammed (from 0.03
BTC to 16
BTC stolen). Just check the last pages of their thread. We confirmed that they scammed someones 16
BTC and BITMIXCOIN ran away.