US DOJ Announce $4.3B Settlement with Binance

• Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, the CEO of Binance, will enter a guilty plea to a single felony charge following a $4.3 billion settlement involving the exchange and various criminal and civil cases.
• The United States Department of Justice announced the settlement, stating that Binance and CZ will be required to pay the settlement to address "civil regulatory enforcement actions" conducted by the U.S. Treasury and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), among others.
• The Attorney General claims that Binance enabled perpetrators engaged in unlawful activities to transfer "stolen funds" via the exchange and that the exchange "pretended to comply" with federal laws.
• Binance will be required to submit suspicious activity reports for previous transactions and will be subject to monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Under the settlement agreement, Binance will remit penalties exceeding $3.4 billion to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and approximately $1 billion to the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
• CZ announced his resignation as CEO, and Richard Teng will succeed him.
• CZ was charged with failing to uphold an anti-money laundering program at the cryptocurrency exchange, contravening the Bank Secrecy Act.
• The resolution between Binance and U.S. officials concludes a substantial portion of the civil and criminal inquiries that had been ongoing for several months.

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