Permanent link to article: okx pleads guilty to illegally processing $1 trillion in U.S. transactions and agrees to pay a $504 million fine after years of evading regulations.
Court documents show
#OKX knowingly allowed U. S. users to trade and ignored anti-money laundering laws.
OKX did not track transactions or enforce the law until the end of 2023, resulting in more than $5 billion in suspicious criminal transactions passing through OKX.
Line_break OKX has been operating since 2017. Seychelles-based exchange OKX, operating since 2017, admitted today, Monday, to conducting unauthorized money transfer business in the U. S.
the crypto platform agreed to pay more than $504 million in fines, becoming the most offshore cryptocurrency exchange to do so since its historic settlement with
#Binance last year. This is the largest enforcement action
Judge Katherine Polk Faira found that OKX willfully violated anti-money laundering (AML) laws and allowed more than $5 billion in criminal transactions to pass through its platform, the Justice Department said in a statement.
The plea deal announced by Acting U. S. Attorney Matthew Podolski and FBI Deputy Director James Dennehy confirms that OKX ignored federal regulations for years and processed more than $1 trillion in transactions from U. S. users.
From 2018 through early 2024, OKX actively solicited U. S. users, including large institutional traders, and received hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees.
For more than seven years, OKX knowingly violated anti-money laundering laws and evaded implementing policies necessary to prevent criminal abuse of the financial system AND evaded implementing policies necessary to prevent criminal abuse of the financial system, Podolsky said in a statement. As a result, OKX was used for questionable transactions that generated more than $5 billion in criminal proceeds.
For years, OKX actively solicited customers in the U. S. , including here in New York, in clear violation of U.
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