MASS MEDIA: investigation into BinanceI
Date: 2023-06-17 Author: Karina Ziganova Categories: BLOCKCHAIN
And failure to fulfill obligations to combat with money laundering. It is reported by Le Monde with reference to the prosecutor's office of Paris
According to the accusation against platform refers to its activities in unregistered supplier status digital asset services. Also the prosecutor's office several “acts of money laundering with pulling guests"
The media claims that the case arose curator Special interregional jurisdiction of Paris, but in August 2022 handed it over to the Investigation Service financial crimes. However, in May Winans received a provider license crypto services from the Commission for the Supervision of French financial market
"Documentary and digital materials collected during the search should now be subject in-depth study," he added. prosecutor.
Head of the French branch of Binance David Princey stated that field checks regulators are "part of regulatory obligations that must comply with all financial institutions" in country. According to him, the company is completely complies with local laws and cooperating with authorities
"We will not comment features of investigations law enforcement or regulatory organs, with the exception of information about our users securely stored and provided government
officials only after receiving the relevant documentary substantiation" he noted
June 5 SEC sued the exchange and its CE Changpeng Zhao. Regulator advanced 13 allegations, including those relating to the sale unregistered securities The department demanded from the court an emergency US assets freeze divisions.
Later there were reports that the claims The commissions are similar to the charges brought department against the crashed crypto exchange FTX and its subsidiary Alameda Research.
