{"id":625841,"date":"2026-07-07T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/kraken-wins-22m-arbitration-against-former-auditor-mazars\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:53:53","slug":"kraken-wins-22m-arbitration-against-former-auditor-mazars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/kraken-wins-22m-arbitration-against-former-auditor-mazars\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken wins $22M arbitration against former auditor Mazars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/courtroom-court-lawsuit-justice-jurisdiction-breaking-news.png\" alt=\"Kraken wins $22M arbitration against former auditor Mazars\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The crypto exchange&#8217;s parent company says Mazars&#8217; withdrawal from its 2022 audit caused millions in damages and tied the dispute to Operation Chokepoint 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has won a $22 million arbitration award against former auditor Mazars USA and asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to enter judgment on the award, according to a letter published Tuesday by co-CEO Arjun Sethi.<\/p>\n<p>Payward said Mazars withdrew from the exchange&#8217;s nearly completed 2022 audit despite finding no fraud, raising no concerns about management&#8217;s integrity and reporting no disagreements with the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An audit is not a favor. It is oxygen,&#8221;\u00a0Sethi wrote, arguing that independent audits are essential for obtaining banking services, licenses and other business relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/kraken-wins-22m-arbitration-against-former-auditor-mazars\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto exchange&#8217;s parent company says Mazars&#8217; withdrawal from its 2022 audit caused millions in damages and tied the dispute to Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has won a $22 million arbitration award against former auditor Mazars USA and asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to enter judgment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-625841","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\/625841","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=625841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}