Scoop: European states working with SEC on Binance investigation
Protos has been told that several European countries have been spurred into action after Binance was indicted by the SEC earlier this month.
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Protos has been told that several European countries have been spurred into action after Binance was indicted by the SEC earlier this month.
Read more (2 min) →While the civil charges brought by the SEC against Binance and FTX are unique to each business, there are still some striking similarities.
Binance was indicted by the SEC in June and was accused of commingling funds into accounts at entities run by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
Declarations from the SEC allege that funds were withdrawn from Binance-controlled accounts to purchase an $11 million yacht and a plane.
The SEC has brought a lawsuit against Binance, alleging it mishandled customer funds, sold unregistered securities, and failed to register.
The total number of cryptos the SEC classes as securities now totals 61. It added 16 when it charged Terraform Labs with fraud in February.
A bad week for CZ. The SEC probes Binance BNB ICO while Reuters proves billions in wash trading occurred via the exchange from 2017 to 2021.
The SEC is probing the relationship between Binance's US exchange and two market makers controlled by Binance chief Changpeng Zhao.