ICIJ Exposes How Top Crypto Exchanges Enabled $9.3 Billion Scam Epidemic
Mohammedia – Major global cryptocurrency exchanges continued to handle huge volumes of suspicious funds even after pleading guilty to U.S. charges and promising to clean up their operations, according to a sweeping new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The findings raise uncomfortable questions about whether the industry is willing, or even able, to stop being a playground for money launderers, scam rings and organized crime networks.
ICIJ reporters traced hundreds of millions of dollars in tether and other digital currencies into customer deposit accounts at leading platforms, including Binance and OKX, during periods when both companies were meant to be under…
