As part of the plea agreement, the co-founders were asked to pay $ 10 million as a fine that represent financial profits from their crime.
The US Southern District Court of New York heard, like the founders of the stock exchange, including the co -accused Sam Reed, supposedly failed to set up a "program to check the identity of Bitmex's customers". Reed has not yet officially announced the indictment and as such, his participation was only asserted by US prosecutors.
The Australian Greg Dwyer, the first official employee of Bitmex and former head of business development, will be confronted with criminal proceedings for similar charges in October after the procedure originally planned for March.
From September 2015 to September 2020, the DOJ claims that the stock exchange was actually "a money laundering platform" due to the Bitmex failure of Bitmex, AML and Know-Your Customer programs.
According to the BSA of the country, the US law of financial institutions requires to monitor, uncover and report money underwear activities in order to contain the related crime. Documents and transaction courses are generally required by financial institutions to US authorities if they suspect customers of making illegal transactions over $ 10,000.
"Hayes and ... Delo have built up a company that is designed to disregard these obligations; they have deliberately failed to only implement and maintain fundamental guidelines to combat money laundering," said US lawyer Damian Williams in the press release. "You enabled Bitmex to operate as a platform in the shadow of the financial markets."
The culmics sometimes conclude a lengthy saga in which Delo, Reed, Dwyer and Hayes 2020 left the city in the United States according to criminal charges. Hayes, who was in Singapore shortly afterwards, negotiated the delivery to the United States, as did Delo and Dwyer. Reed was arrested in Massachusetts in October 2020. Later he was released against a deposit of $ 5 million.
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The contribution Bitmex founder Hayes, Delo owes to have been civilized that he has violated the US banking secretary law is not a financial advice.
