US regulator sues crypto giant Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao
By DW
01 April 2023 | 5:12 am
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged the world’s biggest crypto exchange and its CEO Changpeng Zhao with “willful evasion” of US law.Zhao has rejected the allegations against him.
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