Binance behauptet, Reuters habe im jüngsten Bericht „kritische Fakten“ verpasst

• Reuters behauptet, dass Israel seit 2021 190 Binance-Konten aufgrund ihrer Verbindungen zu den Terrorgruppen Hamas und Islamischer Staat beschlagnahmt hat.
• Israel’s NBCTF said that it confiscated the accounts on Binance to “thwart the activity” of Islamic State and “impair its ability to further its goals.”
• The exchange claims that the authors of the Reuters report are “deliberately leaving out critical facts” related to the matter.
• “It’s important to clarify that bad actors don’t register accounts under the names of their criminal enterprises,” Binance said.

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The struggle between the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, and renowned media outlet Reuters is well known to the crypto community, and it is also a fact that many believe that the crypto exchange is being wrongfully accused by the media outlet in its reports. On the other hand, multiple reports from Reuters claim that the leading crypto firm does not comply with laws and is negligent when it comes to KYC rules and regulations. 

In einer kürzlichen Bericht, Reuters claimed that around 190 accounts on Binance have been seized by Israeli authorities since 2021 due to some of them being linked to the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic State. Citing the documents released by the country’s counter-terror authorities, the Reuters report claims that two accounts and their contents were confiscated on January 12. 

Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) stated on its website that it confiscated the accounts on Binance to “thwart the activity” of Islamic State and “impair its ability to further its goals.” It is important to mention here that the document did not mention the amount of crypto that was seized nor how the accounts were connected to Islamic State.

Das Medienunternehmen behauptet, dass Binance am Donnerstag vor der Veröffentlichung des Artikels nicht auf seine Anrufe und E-Mails reagiert habe. Nachdem der Artikel jedoch online ging, wurde der Austausch angegeben that Reuters was “deliberately leaving out critical facts.” The crypto trading platform claims that it has been “working closely with international counter-terrorism authorities” on the seizures. 

“With regard to the specific organizations mentioned in the article, it’s important to clarify that bad actors don’t register accounts under the names of their criminal enterprises,” Binance said, while adding: 

“Our policies and processes comply with AMLD5/6 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing requirements, and we have a robust compliance program that incorporates sophisticated anti-money laundering and global sanctions principles and tools to detect and address suspicious activity. We even have specialists on our team who have focused their entire careers on counter-terrorism.”

Binance fügte weiter hinzu, dass die Autoren des Reuters-Artikels, Tom Wilson und Angus Berwick, mehrere Schüsse auf die Börse gemacht haben, aber kritische Fakten in jedem ihrer Berichte ausgelassen haben. 

Im Oktober 2022 veröffentlichten Wilson und Berwick a Bericht after gathering secret information from “30 former employees, advisers, and business partners and a review of thousands of company messages, emails, and documents dated between 2017 and early 2022.” The report stated that Binance executives, along with its co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, devised methods to “insulate” themselves from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Die Börse wurde auch mit mehreren Anschuldigungen von verschiedenen Stellen konfrontiert. Wie bereits von Bitnation berichtet, waren Binance, Changpeng Zhao und drei Influencer dabei benannt in einer $1-Milliarden-Klage mit der Behauptung, sie hätten Werbung für nicht registrierte Wertpapiere gemacht. Darüber hinaus behaupten Berichte, dass die Börse ihre Verbindungen zu China verborgen habe, und fügten hinzu, dass Führungskräfte den Mitarbeitern wiederholt Befehle erteilten cover up the firm’s Chinese presence.

Andererseits konnte der US-Zweig der Krypto-Börse Binance US keine Bankpartnerschaften zur Unterstützung seiner Kunden in der Region sichern. Die jüngsten Insolvenzen der Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) und der Signature Bank haben die führende US-Börse ohne Partner zurückgelassen.

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