Binance has lost its top bean counter just as regulatory headwinds threaten to blow the troubled
Cryptocurrency Exchange off its pedestal.
Binance announced early last week that Wei Zhou, the company’s chief financial officer for the past three years, had “decided to leave for personal reasons.” Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao’s traditionally chatty Twitter feed has so far said nothing about Zhou’s abrupt departure, which comes as the company is under assault on a growing number of legal fronts.
Since the year began, investigations into Binance’s activities have been launched by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). In May, Bloomberg
Reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were investigating Binance, allegedly on suspicion of money laundering and tax offenses.
Last week, CoinDesk reported that Palestinian militant group Hamas had recently transferred up to $100,000 in BTC to its military wing through Binance. The exchange eventually blocked the Hamas-linked wallets, but only after blockchain analysts traced the transfers back to Binance.
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