{"id":585225,"date":"2026-04-17T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/us-senator-asks-for-binance-monitor-update-amid-scrutiny-of-iran-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:53:07","slug":"us-senator-asks-for-binance-monitor-update-amid-scrutiny-of-iran-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/us-senator-asks-for-binance-monitor-update-amid-scrutiny-of-iran-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator asks for Binance monitor update amid scrutiny of Iran sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A letter from US Senator Richard Blumenthal said he was concerned about \u201cmounting allegations of dangerously lax anti-money laundering prevention by Binance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal questioned US authorities responsible for overseeing Binance about whether the company is complying with anti-money laundering laws and sanctions under its 2023 court-imposed monitoring program.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> published by Fortune on Friday, Blumenthal sent letters to the Justice Department and the US Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), asking for details on Binance\u2019s compliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Binance and its former CEO Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao reached a deal<\/a> in 2023, in which the exchange would pay $4.3 billion to settle civil regulatory enforcement actions, and CZ would plead guilty to one felony charge.<\/p>\n

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A letter from US Senator Richard Blumenthal said he was concerned about \u201cmounting allegations of dangerously lax anti-money laundering prevention by Binance.\u201d Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal questioned US authorities responsible for overseeing Binance about whether the company is complying with anti-money laundering laws and sanctions under its 2023 court-imposed monitoring program. According to a report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-585225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}