India to block crypto exchange websites in widening crackdown
时间:2024-05-21 18:07:55 阅读(143)
India clamped down on overseas crypto exchanges like Binance that it says are operating illegally there, moving to block local access to their websites. The Financial Intelligence Unit issued so-called compliance show-cause notices to several platforms including Binance, Kraken, KuCoin and Huobi. It also asked the information ministry to block the URLs of the nine entities, according to a statement late Thursday.
“Several offshore entities catering to a substantial part of Indian users were not getting registered and coming under the Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT) framework,” the FIU said in the statement. India’s government this year imposed money-laundering provisions on the crypto sector as it tightens oversight of digital assets along with other countries. In 2022, authorities delivered a major blow to local crypto exchanges by introducing a tax on transactions that caused trading volumes to plummet.
Bloomberg News reported in 2021 that India’s anti-money laundering agency was examining if Binance had a role to play in an investigation involving betting apps. A Binance spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Binance, the largest crypto exchange, has come under increased pressure from regulators around the world in the past year. In November, the company agreed to pay $4.3 billion as it pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering and US sanction violations. As part of the agreement with US authorities, co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao agreed to step down.
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