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Crypto exchange Binance will leave the U.S., pay billions in fines and appoint a monitor for five years to settle charges with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), the U.S. Treasury Department's money laundering and sanctions watchdogs, according to press releases shared Tuesday. Source
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The United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, issued an alert for financial institutions as part of efforts to identify “suspicious activity” related to funding terrorist groups.In an Oct. 20 notice, FinCEN said that the militant group Hamas — behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel —
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According to the FinCEN order, Bitzlato has been used to launder as much as $700 million since its inception, and according to the terms of the order, the regulator wants the named counterparties to stop doing business with Bitzlato.The United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has named
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The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — a bureau of the Treasury Department — has argued that Binance is linked to the illegal cryptocurrency platform Bitzlato.In an order published on Jan. 18, FinCEN stated that the Binance cryptocurrency exchange was among the “top three receiving counterparties” of Bitzlato
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"Approximately two-thirds of Bitzlato’s top receiving and sending counterparties are associated with darknet markets or scams. For example, Bitzlato’s top three receiving counterparties, by total amount of BTC received between May 2018 and September 2022 were: (1) Binance, a VASP; (2) the Russia-connected darknet market Hydra; and (3) the alleged
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Bittrex agreed to pay more than $29 million in a
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A subsidiary of the Huobi cryptocurrency exchange called HBIT Inc has received its Money Services Business (MSB) license from the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).The Seychelles based Huobi said on July 5 that the license creates a foundation for it to carry out crypto-related business in the U.S.
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Him Das, the acting director of the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, said some of the government bureau’s tools to fight money laundering and terrorism financing may be ill suited for crypto.In a Thursday hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on ‘Oversight of the Financial Crimes
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued an advisory on Russian efforts to evade sanctions that includes a number of crypto-related red flags. However, the bureau admitted that it has not seen “widespread evasion” of its sanctions using cryptocurrency. FinCEN Warns About Sanctions Evasion The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a
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