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ANALYSIS: Guilty on all charges – but why this deal is a good outcome for the world’s dirty money launderer Zhao

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MONITORS: Binance's founder Changpeng Zhao was jailed in the US for allowing the exchange be used by terrorists, child abusers and sanctions busters. The company may now be a beneficiary of new US policies to remove monitors from companies who have committed corporate and financial crimes.

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NEWS: Dominique Thienpont replaces Olivier Salles as Head of the AMLA Task Force

NEWS: TGP Europe, sponsor of multiple Premier League clubs, exits UK after £3.3M AML fine

INSIGHT: Why the US will not pull out of FATF – by organization’s former chief

By AML Intelligence Correspondents A RECORD-breaking $4.3BN settlement and a guilty plea but legal experts said it was a good outcome for Changpeng Zhao. After all it leaves the world’s dirty money launderer with his vast wealth intact and allows the criminal mastermind to retain his stake in Binance, the exchange he founded in 2017….

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NEWS: Dominique Thienpont replaces Olivier Salles as Head of the AMLA Task Force

NEWS: TGP Europe, sponsor of multiple Premier League clubs, exits UK after £3.3M AML fine

INSIGHT: Why the US will not pull out of FATF – by organization’s former chief

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