Binance VD anklagas för bedrägeri av den brasilianska kongressen

• En brasiliansk kongresskommitté har rekommenderat lokala brottsbekämpande myndigheter att undersöka Binance och dess VD.
• Det hävdar att börsen, VD Zhao, och dess lokala chefer är engagerade i bedrägliga planer.
• Kongresskommittén har anklagat företaget för att verka utan tillräcklig licens i regionen.
• The firm has “set up an opaque network of legal entities, all controlled directly or indirectly by Zhao,” it said.

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Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, Binance, is now a target of a Brazilian congressional committee that has recommended law enforcement actions against the executive and seeks to indict the billionaire entrepreneur over alleged fraudulent financial pyramid schemes in the South American country.

500 sidor Rapportera publicerades av den brasilianska kommittén den 10 oktober, där Binances vd, tillsammans med de lokala cheferna Daniel Mangabeira, Guilherme Haddad Nazar och Thiago Carvalho, anklagades för bedrägliga förvaltningsmetoder, verksamma utan tillräcklig auktorisation och erbjuda värdepappershandel utan auktorisation.

The committee led by deputy Ricardo Silva claimed that Binance, Zhao, and others “set up an opaque network of legal entities, all controlled directly or indirectly by Zhao, without defined business purposes and with no other purpose than evading compliance with the law.” The committee also suggested the indictment of 45 other people, citing “strong evidence” of their alleged participation in criminal schemes.

Silva noted that Binance’s operations in several jurisdictions are being investigated, and in Brazil, the authorities believe that the exchange is “surrounded by suspicion.” The Congressional committee asked the Federal Public Ministry to launch an investigation into the crypto exchange and its executives. The focus of the investigation would be on tax evasion, money laundering, and the financing of organized crime and terrorism.

The committee also targeted the crypto exchange’s sale of derivatives products, asking the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) to launch an investigation into these products. It believes that despite being told to cease offering derivatives to the country’s citizens, Binance continued to offer them, which constituted a “repeated violation” of market regulations.

Det är viktigt att notera att de 500 sidor långa dokumenten från kommittén inte är bindande för de lokala brottsbekämpande myndigheterna utan bara är förslag. Regionala tillsynsmyndigheter kommer att besluta om de ska inleda en utredning eller avstå från att göra det. 

As reported earlier by Bitnation, Binance confirmed that it was helping Israel’s police freeze some crypto accounts knuten till Hamasgruppen. Myndigheterna har beslagtagit 190 Hamas-kopplade konton på den ledande börsen sedan 2021.

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