La SEC demanda al CEO de Binance, Changpeng Zhao

• La CFTC ha instado al tribunal a que prohíba a Changpeng Zhao realizar prácticas comerciales que caen dentro de su jurisdicción y evitar que Binance opere en los EE. UU. 
• Binance, en una publicación de blog del lunes, insinuó que tomaría medidas para defenderse. 

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly sued crypto exchange Binance and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao, for allegedly running what the regulator termed a “web of deception”. The SEC accused Binance of mismanaging customer funds and deceiving American regulators and investors about its business practices. The suit said that Binance and its CEO “enriched themselves by billions of U.S. dollars while placing investors’ assets at significant risk.”

La SEC, en su demanda de 136 páginas, alegó que Binance había mezclado y transferido en secreto miles de millones de dólares en activos de clientes a Merit Peak Limited, una empresa diferente propiedad de Zhao. La SEC también afirmó que Binance engañó a los inversores sobre la efectividad de sus procedimientos para identificar y prevenir el comercio fraudulento, así como sus esfuerzos para evitar que los usuarios con sede en EE. UU. operen en su plataforma global. 

El traje dijo,

As a second part of Zhao’s and Binance’s plan to shield themselves from U.S. regulation, they consistently claimed to the public that the Binance.com platform did not serve U.S. persons, while simultaneously concealing their efforts to ensure that the most valuable U.S. customers continued trading on the platform.

The SEC added that “when the Binance.US Platform launched in 2019, Binance announced that it was implementing controls to block U.S. customers from the Binance.com Platform. In reality, Binance did the opposite. Zhao directed Binance to assist certain high-value U.S. customers in circumventing those controls and to do so surreptitiously because – as Zhao himself acknowledged – Binance did not want to ‘be held accountable’ for these actions.”

Binance ofreció valores no registrados

The lawsuit accused Binance, Binance.US, and CZ of offering unregistered securities to their users in the form of the BNB token and BUSD stablecoin. The SEC further branded Binance’s staking service as a violation of US securities law.

El regulador estadounidense afirmó que tokens como Solana (SOL), Polygon (MATIC), Algorand blockchains (ALGO), Cardano (ADA), Filecoin network (FIL), Coti (COTI), Cosmos hub (ATOM) y Decentraland (MANA) son valores.

La SEC presentó un total de 13 cargos contra Binance y su CEO. El regulador quiere que se evite que Zhao actúe como funcionario o director de cualquier empresa registrada en los EE. UU. que ofrezca valores, además de recibir una compensación de Binance.

Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the S.E.C.’s enforcement division, said,

Alegamos que Zhao y las entidades de Binance no solo conocían las reglas del camino, sino que también eligieron conscientemente evadirlas y poner en riesgo a sus clientes e inversores.

Binance se ha enfrentado a un mayor escrutinio desde principios de año por parte de los reguladores federales de EE. UU., quienes afirmaron que el intercambio evadió las leyes destinadas a proteger a los inversores estadounidenses. Binance según se informa realiza hasta $65 mil millones en actividad comercial diaria promedio y controla la mayor parte de la participación de mercado en el espacio criptográfico. 

El caso contra el criptointercambio se considera ampliamente como un factor decisivo en el futuro del criptomercado. Curiosamente, los reguladores de EE. UU. han considerado a Binance como uno de sus objetivos principales en su esfuerzo por someter a la industria de las criptomonedas. 

Binance está listo para contraatacar

Binance executives shared a blog post on Monday where they claimed they had been seeking to reach a settlement with authorities and were “disappointed” and “disheartened” by the S.E.C.’s decision to file a lawsuit. 

Binance dijo en un comunicado,

To be clear: any allegations that user assets on the Binance.US platform have ever been at risk are simply wrong, and there is zero justification for the staff’s action in light of the ample time the staff has had to conduct their investigation. All user assets on Binance and Binance affiliate platforms, including Binance.US, are safe and secure, and we will vigorously defend against any allegations to the contrary.

The crypto exchange alleged that the case represented a “misguided and conscious refusal to provide much-needed clarity and guidance to the digital asset industry.” Furthermore, Binance claimed that the S.E.C. hurried to bring the complaint, pointing out that it received “a new set of 26 document requests” from the authorities last week.

Crypto users believe the SEC’s case against Binance is its biggest attempt to take on the industry. 

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