Financial Times : Binance a caché des liens avec la Chine
- Binance aurait utilisé les services VPN pour masquer sa présence en Chine.
- Les employés de Binance en Chine ont été strictement avertis de ne pas s'identifier publiquement à la bourse.
- Binance a souvent été présenté comme un échange crypto appartenant à l'État. La société a cependant nié toute implication avec le gouvernement chinois.
Un nouveau rapport by the Financial Times claims that crypto exchange Binance hid its deep ties with China for several years. Citing internal documents, the Financial Times claimed that the company’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao, and other top individuals within the exchange repeatedly gave orders to staff members to cover up Binance’s Chinese presence. The exchange also tried to hide details of a Chinese bank used to pay employees’ salaries as well as an office address used until 2019.
Zhao reportedly messaged Binance employees in 2017 saying, “We no longer publish our office addresses . People in China can directly say that our office is not in China.”
The new discovery is a huge contradiction to Binance’s claims that it left China after the industry-wide raid in 2017. Zhao, at the time, claimed most of Binance’s employees had left China other than “a small number of customer service agents.” But the documents reveal how hard Binance tried to keep its operations under wraps.
Binance has also denied being registered or incorporated in China. The crypto exchange wrote in a message that “the original founding team members that were based in Shanghai left China just two months after the company was organized, before the company was even incorporated, following crackdowns on the crypto industry in China.”
Binance, comme le reste du monde de la cryptographie, a fait l'objet d'une surveillance accrue. Les régulateurs américains ont poursuivi la bourse lundi, affirmant qu'elle fournissait illégalement des services aux résidents américains. La Commodity Futures Trading Commission a affirmé que Binance, dirigée par son CO, Zhao, avait délibérément tenté d'éviter la réglementation et n'avait pas divulgué ses opérations.
Zhao has publicly denied Binance being a Chinese company. As per the Financial Times, a Binance spokesperson was quoted saying, “It is unfortunate that anonymous sources are citing ancient history (in crypto terms) and dramatically mischaracterizing events. This is not an accurate picture of Binance’s operations.”
The news of Binance’s ties with China will undoubtedly be a huge blow to Binance.US’s proposed $1 billion purchase of assets belonging to Voyager Digital. A former employee of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius) has expressed concerns with any “deal that traces back to China.”
In defense of its ties with China, Binance explained that “the Chinese government, like any other government, has no access to Binance data except where we are responding to lawful and legitimate law enforcement requests.”
Binance aurait également utilisé les services VPN pour cacher son emplacement en Chine. Étonnamment, le CFTC’s lawsuit accusé Binance d'un acte similaire. L'échange crypto fait face à une lourde tâche pour s'imposer comme une entreprise intègre.
J'ai couvert des histoires passionnantes dans ma carrière de journaliste et je trouve les histoires liées à la blockchain très intrigantes. Je crois que Web3 va changer le monde et je veux que tout le monde en fasse partie.
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