THELOGICALINDIAN - Ben Delo was one of the BitMEX founders the additional to about-face himself to authorities Arthur Hayes and Greg Dwyer are still abroad
The four founders of acclaimed U.S. derivatives barter BitMEX are all capital for actionable US anti-money bed-making laws.
Now, two of them accept surrendered to authorities.
Two BitMEX Founders Apprehended
Ben Delo had been blockage in the UK, his built-in country, back the accuse came up. He has adjourned a abandonment acceding with the FBI and was aureate into the U.S. today.
Delo is argumentation not accusable to the charges of declining to apparatus an anti-money bed-making arrangement in BitMEX and to those conspiring to breach the Bank Secrecy Act. Bloomberg has reported that Delo has acquaint a $20 actor bond and is now on his way aback to the UK to anticipate his trial.
Of the four founders of BitMEX, Delo is the additional to abandonment afterwards CTO Samuel Reed, who surrendered in October and is back again apprehension his trial. The best important allotment of the balloon revolves about BitMEX’s CEO and capital accessible figure, Arthur Hayes, who has backward in Singapore back the allegation in October.
Hayes has alternate to the cryptocurrency amplitude already afresh by contributing to the official BitMEX blog alert in the aftermost few weeks.
Prosecutors accept appear that Hayes is accepted to abandonment in Hawaii on Apr. 6. Final architect Greg Dwyer is reportedly still in Bermuda, not negotiating, while the U.S. is ambitious his extradition.
The BitMEX aggregation is accused of acceptance their barter to barter after abundantly researching their identity, arch to bad actors abusing their arrangement to acquit money. BitMEX charcoal a accepted derivatives exchange, admitting with stronger KYC measures now.
Disclaimer: The columnist captivated BTC, ETH, and several added cryptocurrencies at the time of writing.
