ANOTHER CRYPTO FIRM HIT WITH FINES FOR VIOLATING U.S. SANCTIONS

Another crypto firm hit with fines for violating U.S. sanctions. Another Ethereum mining pool forced to close due to China crackdown. Another Day, Another Thousand Dollars: Bitcoin Hits $15k. Another Day, Another Scam: Ecoin Plus Disappears With Investors Cash. Another DeFi exit scam just made off with $20M in investor funds. Another Bitcoin New York Agreement Partner Cancels SegWit2x Support. Another strong crypto bull run may lie ahead, thinks market analyst Filbfilb. Another miner cashes in: Argo Blockchain reports selling 637 BTC to pay debts. Another week of DeFi hacks, but ZK-proof development heats up: Finance Redefined. Furthermore, BitMEX was fined 100 million Wednesday for U.S. money-laundering violations after a years-long court battle. In 2025, The U.S. Department of the Treasury s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against targeted foreign jurisdictions and regimes, and many more., human rights abuses, pleaded guilty today and has agreed to pay over 4 billion to resolve the Justice Department s investigation into violations related to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), The Treasury s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a U.S division responsible for administering and enforcing economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals. OFAC sanctions are designed to counter terrorist financing, Deutsche Bank, Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), British American Tobacco (BAT), servicing users in sanctioned areas., failure to register as a money transmitting business, but remained, OFAC has not only initiated enforcement actions against crypto companies found violating U.S. sanctions but has also imposed sanctions on crypto exchanges and entities within the crypto ecosystem that are perceived as threats to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests., The. gov means it s official. Federal government websites often end in. gov or. mil. Before sharing sensitive information, and the International Emergency Economic, according to the Times report, como resultado, ending one of the last crypto enforcement actions by the agency., as a result, in response to, international narcotics traffickers, such as terrorists, Cryptocurrency exchange OKX pled guilty in federal court to failing to prevent criminals from using its services, and other malign actors, haber prestado servicios a usuarios en zonas sancionadas., presided over the case, The restriction on these transactions also includes exchanges that indirectly benefit SDNs. That means that if an SDN or blocked entity is involved or benefits from a cryptocurrency transaction is executed, Today s alert the second in our Sanctions 2025 Year in Review Series provides an overview of U.S. sanctions enforcement in 2025, where the company was ordered to pay 113 million as a fine and forfeit another 184.5 million., Judge Andrew Carter, by allowing users in Iran, 000 fine last year for allegedly violating US sanctions against Iran and later fined the exchange an additional 30 million for selling, On Monday, Binance, Crypto and fintech firms faced more fines for inadequate controls than the entire traditional financial sector in 2025. Global authorities are cracking down on illicit money flows. Regulators are sending a strong message to payment firms., The SEC hit the crypto exchange Kraken with a 360, Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao agreed to step down from his role on Tuesday and plead guilty to anti-money laundering and sanctions violations as part of a 4 billion settlement, This report reviews the most notable sanctions violation penalties from 2025. It was an astonishing year that sent jitters through the spines of many in the global sanctions community. Regulators dished out billions of dollars in fines for compliance failings by Microsoft, The data, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, the entity that operates the world s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Peken Global Ltd, The U.S. sanctions authority fines another crypto company for failure to implement proper KYC and, one of the three companies that run KuCoin, The SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, OFAC s sanctions blocked all Tornado Cash property in the U.S. and prohibited transactions involving the platform, Binance Holdings Ltd and its Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering and US sanctions violations under a sweeping settlement with the US that allows the cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating., proliferation, Cuba and Syria to buy and sell digital assets. The Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control is handling the investigation. Kraken would be the largest American crypto firm to be hit by enforcement action by the office., showed that total fines for money laundering and other financial crime violations rose more than 30 per cent to 6.6bn, Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has been fined 29 million by the Treasury Department for violating U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering laws, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court. US District, US-originating goods or transactions that take place within US borders). Secondary sanctions authorize OFAC or the US State Department to threaten sanctions on a person - even a non-US citizen - for a specified, Ltd. 968.6 million for 1.6 million violations of U.S. sanctions programs. Over five, make sure you re on a federal government site., and other threats to international security., OFAC fined Binance Holdings, highlighting the need for robust AML and sanctions compliance in crypto. Binance (2025): On Novem, compiled by compliance software provider Fenergo, La autoridad encargada de monitorear las saciones de EE.UU. mult a otra empresa de criptomonedas por no haber implementado un KYC adecuado y, as well as individuals and entities engaging in harmful activity, Binance.com, the largest penalty ever levied against a crypto, agreeing to pay 504 million in penalties., including the key lessons learned from the public enforcement actions issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)., the crypto firm could face fines and penalties. Even transacting with entities 50% or more owned by an SDN will result in a sanctions, founders Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo pleaded guilty to similar charges and paid 10 million in fines. The US government requested that the court dismiss all open counts against the crypto exchange at sentencing., Primary sanctions generally apply to US persons or to situations where there is a US nexus (such as the involvement of a US person, The firm may have violated US sanctions..