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NEW YORK - Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money laundering laws as part of a $4.3 billion settlement resolving a years-long probe into the world's largest crypto exchange, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The deal, which will see Zhao personally pay $50 million, was described by prosecutors as one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history. It is another blow to the crypto industry that has been beset by investigations and comes on the heels of the recent fraud conviction of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
But several legal experts said it was a good outcome for Zhao, leaving his vast wealth intact and allowing him to retain his stake in Binance, the exchange he founded in 2017.
Binance broke U.S. anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and failed to report more than 100,000 suspicious transactions with organizations the U.S. described as terrorist groups including Hamas, al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, authorities said.
Source: Reuters
幣安創始人趙認罪並下台以和解美國非法金融調查
紐約 - 檢察官週二表示，幣安首席執行官趙長鵬辭職，並承認違反美國反洗錢法，作為解決對全球最大加密貨幣交易所長達數年調查的 43 億美元和解協議的一部分。
這筆交易將要求趙個人支付 5,000 萬美元，檢察官稱這是美國歷史上最大的企業處罰之一。這是繼 FTX 創始人 Sam Bankman-Fried 最近被判欺詐罪之後，一直受到調查困擾的加密貨幣行業的另一個打擊。
但幾位法律專家表示，這對趙來說是一個很好的結果，他的巨額財富完好無損，並允許他保留在他於 2017 年創立的交易所幣安的股份。
當局表示，幣安違反了美國反洗錢和製裁法律，並且未能報告與哈馬斯、基地組織以及伊拉克和敘利亞伊斯蘭國等美國所謂恐怖組織的超過 10 萬筆可疑交易。
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