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"a reputable institution" for off shore banking and money laundering currently under investigation. https://thebitcoinnews.com/brazil-tether039s-new-banking-pa

"a reputable institution" for off shore banking and money laundering currently under investigation. https://thebitcoinnews.com/brazil-tether039s-new-banking-partner-deltec-suspected-of-accepting-laundered-funds/ https://thebitcoinnews.com/brazil-tether039s-new-banking-par... https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/tethers-new-banker-in-the-crosshairs-of-the-u-s-government-for-money-laundering/ https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/tethers-new-banker-in-the-cr...

chrisco255 8y ago
https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/46790/deltec-bank-trust-issues-public-denial-venezuelan-money-laundering-scheme-involvement https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/46790/deltec-bank-tru... https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/deltec-bank-trust-issues-public-denial-of-venezuelan-money-laundering-scheme-involvement/ https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/deltec-bank-trust-issues-pu... Ok, so criminal gets caught, authorities order seizure of Venezuelan's assets held in bank...bank complies with authorities. Yawn. Got any more FUD?
- nosuchthing 8y ago
  Sure In early April, unconfirmed rumors swirled around €400 million said to have been seized by Polish authorities that were alleged to be tied to Bitfinex. As reported on CoinTelegraph, the funds, claimed to be held in Bank Spoldzielczy, were said to link Bitfinex to suspicious activities in Colombia. https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bitfinex-tether-investigation/ https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bitfine... https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-in-poland-were-there-money-laundering-links https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-in-poland-were-there... Sure sounds like Bitfinex is having a reoccurring theme of having their bank accounts shut down, and then finding banks in weird locations only to get them shut down within a month or two. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-found-bank-might-bahamas-181859081.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-found-bank-might-baham... “This banking information is commercially sensitive and confidential. You should be very careful with this information. You are asked to keep this information to yourself and to not share it except with your financial institution. Divulging this information could damage not just yourself and Bitfinex, but the entire digital token ecosystem. Accordingly, you are cautioned that there may be serious negative effects associated with this information becoming public.” Seems legit https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-and-tether-is-unauditable-why-they-will-never-do-a-real-audit-3324e002b185 https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-and-tether-is-unaudi... Tether auditor distances itself after publishing "not an audit" and then "Friedman Quietly Removes Bitfinex Mentions" A brief announcement posted on Friedman’s own site, dated May 8th 2017 and titled “Friedman Selected as Crypto-Savvy Auditor by Bitfinex” now links to a 404 page. For the record, here’s an archived version. https://web.archive.org/web/20171129082053/http://www.friedmanllp.com:80/insights/auditor-engagement https://web.archive.org/web/20171129082053/http://www.friedm...

chrisco255 8y ago

https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/46790/deltec-bank-trust-issues-public-denial-venezuelan-money-laundering-scheme-involvement https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/46790/deltec-bank-tru... https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/deltec-bank-trust-issues-public-denial-of-venezuelan-money-laundering-scheme-involvement/ https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/deltec-bank-trust-issues-pu... Ok, so criminal gets caught, authorities order seizure of Venezuelan's assets held in bank...bank complies with authorities. Yawn. Got any more FUD?

nosuchthing 8y ago
Sure In early April, unconfirmed rumors swirled around €400 million said to have been seized by Polish authorities that were alleged to be tied to Bitfinex. As reported on CoinTelegraph, the funds, claimed to be held in Bank Spoldzielczy, were said to link Bitfinex to suspicious activities in Colombia. https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bitfinex-tether-investigation/ https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bitfine... https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-in-poland-were-there-money-laundering-links https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-in-poland-were-there... Sure sounds like Bitfinex is having a reoccurring theme of having their bank accounts shut down, and then finding banks in weird locations only to get them shut down within a month or two. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-found-bank-might-bahamas-181859081.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-found-bank-might-baham... “This banking information is commercially sensitive and confidential. You should be very careful with this information. You are asked to keep this information to yourself and to not share it except with your financial institution. Divulging this information could damage not just yourself and Bitfinex, but the entire digital token ecosystem. Accordingly, you are cautioned that there may be serious negative effects associated with this information becoming public.” Seems legit https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-and-tether-is-unauditable-why-they-will-never-do-a-real-audit-3324e002b185 https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-and-tether-is-unaudi... Tether auditor distances itself after publishing "not an audit" and then "Friedman Quietly Removes Bitfinex Mentions" A brief announcement posted on Friedman’s own site, dated May 8th 2017 and titled “Friedman Selected as Crypto-Savvy Auditor by Bitfinex” now links to a 404 page. For the record, here’s an archived version. https://web.archive.org/web/20171129082053/http://www.friedmanllp.com:80/insights/auditor-engagement https://web.archive.org/web/20171129082053/http://www.friedm...