The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that Binance operated a derivatives trading operation in the U.S., offering trades for cryptocurrencies including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC), tether (USDT) and Binance USD (BUSD), which the suit referred to as commodities. The suit also alleges that the company, under Zhao’s leadership, directed its employees to spoof their locations through the use of virtual private networks.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/28/binance-ceo-zhao-calls-cftc-suit-an-incomplete-recitation-of-facts/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines