THELOGICALINDIAN - The operators of Bitfinex affirmation that the cryptocurrency barter is a victim of artifice committed by its acquittal processor Crypto Capital The men abaft Crypto Capital now face accuse accompanying to money bed-making in Poland and the US
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Crypto Capital Leadership Accused of Money Laundering
Crypto Capital is a acquittal processor that handled funds for and on account of Bitfinex for several years according to accessible cloister documents. The cryptocurrency barter accuses Crypto Capital of causing it to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
On Thursday it was appear that the payments processor’s president, Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, was extradited to Poland from Greece to acknowledgment accuse accompanying to money laundering. Another arch of the company, Oz Yosef, was accusable on three bent counts by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday.
Bitfinex has issued a statement on the matter, adage that it was not complex in money bed-making and that it has been aria to by Crypto Capital assembly including Molina and Yosef. Bitfinex claims that Crypto Capital falsely referred to its integrity, cyberbanking expertise, able-bodied acquiescence affairs and banking licenses to assure it was able of administration the company’s transactions.
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According to media reports from Poland, the allegations adjoin the admiral of Crypto Capital accommodate bed-making funds for an all-embracing biologic bunch from Colombia via Bitfinex and appointment them to Polish coffer accounts. The letters acknowledgment that board begin that from December 2016 to February 2018 about PLN 1.4 billion (US $360 million) was transferred to these accounts, which accept been bedeviled by authorities.
“Bitfinex is the victim of a artifice and is authoritative its position bright to the accordant authorities, including those in Poland and the United States,” declared the company’s accepted admonition Stuart Hoegner on Friday. “We cannot allege about Crypto Capital’s added clients, but any advancement that Crypto Capital apple-pie biologic gain or any added adulterous funds at the bidding of Bitfinex or its barter is actually false. This week’s developments do annihilation to affect or contrarily avert Bitfinex’s claims to funds in Poland or anywhere else. We will abide to assignment to balance all funds for and on account of our stakeholders.”
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