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U.S. court dismisses terrorism lawsuit against world's largest crypto exchange
A U.S. court has dismissed a terrorism lawsuit against the world's largest cryptocurrency trading exchange, Binance, filed by victims and relatives of 64 terror attacks. The 535 plaintiffs are the victims and relatives of victims of terror attacks carried out by groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), al-Qaeda, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) between 2016 and 2024. The lawsuit claimed that Binance deliberately violated sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML)/countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) norms which effectively led ... (full story)