Binance hävdar att Reuters missade "kritiska fakta" i den senaste rapporten

• Reuters hävdar att 190 Binance-konton har beslagtagits av Israel sedan 2021 på grund av deras kopplingar till terrorgrupperna Hamas och Islamiska staten.
• 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. 

I en nyligen Rapportera, 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.

Mediet hävdar att Binance inte svarade på sina samtal och e-postmeddelanden på torsdagen innan den gjorde artikeln live. Men efter att artikeln gick live, utbytet uppgav 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 tillade vidare att författarna till Reuters-artikeln, Tom Wilson och Angus Berwick, har tagit flera bilder på börsen men utelämnat kritiska fakta i var och en av sina rapporter. 

I oktober 2022 publicerade Wilson och Berwick en Rapportera 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. 

Utbytet har också stått inför flera anklagelser från olika enheter. Som tidigare rapporterats av Bitnation har Binance, Changpeng Zhao och tre influencers varit namngiven i en rättegång på $1 miljarder påstå att de ägnat sig åt marknadsföring av oregistrerade värdepapper. Dessutom hävdar rapporter att börsen har dolt sina band till Kina, och tillägger att chefer upprepade gånger gav order till personalen att cover up the firm’s Chinese presence.

Å andra sidan har den amerikanska grenen av kryptobörsen, Binance US, inte kunnat säkra bankpartnerskap för att stödja sina kunder i regionen. De senaste misslyckandena i Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) och Signature Bank har lämnat den ledande amerikanska börsen utan en partner.

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