-
US Treasury pressures top exchange over $1B Iran transfers
The U.S. Treasury Department has "privately" asked Binance to follow a "monitoring program" that the world's leading cryptocurrency trading exchange agreed to as part of its 2023 guilty plea amid news reports of over $1 billion in funds moving through it to Iran-linked "entities," The Information reported on May 7. With the United States and Israel fighting a war with Iran, the Western powers are also trying to economically pressure Iran. It was in February that Fortune reported that investigators on Binance’s compliance team uncovered evidence that Iran-linked entities had received more than $1 billion through ... (full story)