Crypto firm Payeer fined $10M for serving Russian customers
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Lithuania slapped crypto wallet firm Payeer with a $10.1 million fine after it broke Russian sanctions and anti-money laundering laws.
Lithuania slapped crypto wallet firm Payeer with a $10.1 million fine after it broke Russian sanctions and anti-money laundering laws.
Oligarch Mikhail Klyukin sold £15 million of shares in a crypto firm linked to former UK chancellor Philip Hammond.
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