U.S. SEC says billion in customer crypto as the “mercy” of Binance CEO CZ.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed another document in itsentered on June 5, the regulators claim that the defendants, including Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Binance Holdings Ltd., “have enriched themselves by billions of U.S. dollars while placing investors’ assets at significant risk.”
It goes on to say that the defendants’ made “purposeful efforts” to bypass U.S. regulatory oversight while providing securities-related services to U.S. users. “[This] puts the safety of billions of dollars of U.S. investor capital at risk and at Binance’s and Zhao’s mercy.”The filing gives an example of billions of U.S. dollars of customer funds from both Binance platforms being “commingled” in an account operated by a “Zhaocontrolled entity,” which it identified as Merit Peak Limited.
It said funds were then transferred to a third party “apparently in connection” with the purchase and sale of crypto assets.According to regulators the arrangement has given and continues to give Zhao “free reign” of billions in deposited assets on the Binance.US platform, “with no oversight or controls to ensure that the assets are properly secured.”amid the SEC’s attempts to freeze assets.against Binance due to mishandling user funds and operating with unregistered securities.
The latest lawsuit of the SEC vs Binance, as well as its lawsuit against Coinbase has resulted in the regulator labeling at least
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