Whistleblower News: Coinbase Settles CFTC Charges For $6.5M, NatWest Money Laundering, Russian Military Contractor Kickbacks
CFTC Orders Coinbase Inc. to Pay $6.5 Million for False, Misleading, or Inaccurate Reporting and Wash Trading
CFTC
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against digital asset exchange operator Coinbase Inc., based in San Francisco, California, for reckless false, misleading, or inaccurate reporting as well as wash trading by a former employee on Coinbase’s GDAX platform. read more »
NatWest money laundering case linked to second criminal trial, prosecutors say
REUTERS
Criminal money laundering charges against British state-backed bank NatWest are linked to a separate case against 13 individuals based in cities across the country, prosecutors have told Reuters. read more »
Russian national in US pleads guilty to bribery, visa fraud
AP NEWS
A Russian national living in North Carolina who had been accused by authorities of involvement in a $150 million kickback scheme while working for a Russian military contractor has pleaded guilty to unrelated charges including bribery and visa fraud. read more »