Binance affirme que Reuters a raté des "faits critiques" dans un rapport récent

• Reuters affirme que 190 comptes Binance ont été saisis par Israël depuis 2021 en raison de leurs liens avec les groupes terroristes Hamas et État islamique.
• 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. 

Dans un récent rapport, 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.

Le média affirme que Binance n'a pas répondu à ses appels et e-mails jeudi avant de publier l'article. Cependant, après la mise en ligne de l'article, l'échange déclaré 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 a en outre ajouté que les auteurs de l'article de Reuters, Tom Wilson et Angus Berwick, ont pris plusieurs photos de l'échange mais ont omis des faits critiques dans chacun de leurs rapports. 

En octobre 2022, Wilson et Berwick ont publié un rapport 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. 

L'échange a également fait l'objet de multiples accusations de la part de diverses entités. Comme indiqué précédemment par Bitnation, Binance, Changpeng Zhao et trois influenceurs ont été nommé dans un procès de $1 milliard alléguant qu'ils se livraient à la promotion de titres non enregistrés. De plus, des rapports affirment que la bourse a caché ses liens avec la Chine, ajoutant que les dirigeants ont donné à plusieurs reprises l'ordre aux membres du personnel de cover up the firm’s Chinese presence.

D'autre part, la branche américaine de l'échange de crypto, Binance US, n'a pas été en mesure d'obtenir des partenariats bancaires pour soutenir ses clients dans la région. Les récents échecs de la Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) et de la Signature Bank ont laissé la première bourse américaine sans partenaire.

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