THELOGICALINDIAN - An Australian bitcoin banker has filed a accusation adjoin two of the countrys better bartering banks accusing them of analytical bigotry back they bankrupt his accounts on abbreviate notice
Allan Flynn is ambitious advantage of AU$250,000 ($193,000) from ANZ and Westpac banks for closing his accounts anon afterwards they had been opened, the Australian Financial Review reported on Jan. 18.
Flynn, who operates a registered bitcoin (BTC) exchange, has started affairs adjoin both banks at the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. The banker alleges he is the victim of actionable discrimination, with no beneath than 20 banks closing his accounts in the accomplished three years.
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Flynn’s barter is registered with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), he says, and has helped facilitate BTC trades for about 450 customers.
Westpac reportedly told Flynn that his annual was bankrupt because he was “under analysis for cryptocurrency fraud.” ANZ said it does not action cyberbanking casework to crypto brokers, issuers or exchanges. Per the report, Flynn claimed an ANZ artisan had abreast added banks and his audience that he was complex in fraud.
Crypto barter operators accept had a boxy time aperture and advancement accounts with acceptable cyberbanking institutions. Earlier this month, Chile’s Free Competition Defense Court ruled that Banco Itaú and Banco Estado, two above banks in the country, charge reopen the blockage accounts of crypto barter Buda.
The accounts were bankrupt in 2024 afterwards they were abominably active in a betray run by Terra Finance.
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