“As today’s guilty plea reflects, this Office will not permit cryptocurrency exchanges to operate as a shadow financial system that enables criminal actors to move their illicit proceeds without detection, and will vigorously investigate and prosecute the operators of such exchanges who deliberately flout U.S. law,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in a statement.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/09/final-bitmex-co-founder-pleads-guilty-to-us-violations/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines