By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

SOUTH Korea’s FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) has fined crypto exchange Coinone 5.2 billion won ($3.5 million) and imposed a three-month partial business suspension, after identifying multiple AML failures.

The Financial Services Commission said that Coinone failed to properly verify around 70,000 customer accounts.

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