Gregory Dwyer, one of the four high-level executives of Seychelles-based crypto exchange BitMEX who was charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) last October, has agreed to be extradited to the U.S. from Bermuda, The Royal Gazette reported on Tuesday.
On October 1, 2020, federal prosecutors in New York accused four BitMEX executives, including the exchange’s CEO Arthur Hayes, CTO Samuel Reed, co-founder Benjamin Delo, and head of business operations Gregory Dwyer, of conspiracy to evade money laundering regulations.
At the time, the U.S. Justice Department argued that Hayes, Reed, Delo, and Dwyer “willfully failed to establish, implement, and maintain an adequate antimoney (sic) laundering (‘AML’) program, including an adequate customer identification program, more commonly referred to as a know your customer (‘KYC’) program, for BitMEX, in violation of the BSA.”
“As a result of its failure to implement AML and KYC programs, BitMEX made itself available as a ve
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