{"id":87945,"date":"2023-12-07T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87945"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:57:18","slug":"seattle-court-accepts-czs-guilty-plea-to-anti-money-laundering-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/seattle-court-accepts-czs-guilty-plea-to-anti-money-laundering-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle court accepts CZ&#8217;s guilty plea to anti-money-laundering charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. district judge in Seattle has accepted the guilty plea of former Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao (CZ) in connection with anti-money-laundering violations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/266430\/seattle-judge-accepts-former-binance-ceo-changpeng-zhaos-guilty-plea\">The Block<\/a> reports, citing court records.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on whether Zhao may leave the United States prior to sentencing, scheduled for February 23, 2024, has not yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, CZ <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-to-pay-50-million-under-u-s-doj-settlement\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering laws. Binance will pay $4.3 billion as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Zhao also agreed to pay a $50 million fine and stepped down as CEO of the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-steps-down-from-binance-us-board\">stepped down<\/a> from the post of chairman of the Binance.US board, while retaining purely economic interests in the unit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Zhao <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-released-on-175-million-bond\">posted a $175 million bail<\/a> to remain at large, but prosecutors, fearing his flight, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/prosecutors-seek-to-bar-cz-from-leaving-the-united-states\">oppose<\/a> this possibility. <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/judge-bars-changpeng-zhao-from-leaving-the-united-states-until-verdict-is-delivered\">The final decision<\/a> is due to be made in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur faces <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-doj-changpeng-zhao-could-face-up-to-ten-years-in-prison\">up to ten years&#8217; imprisonment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States district judge in Seattle has accepted the guilty plea of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) in connection with anti-money-laundering violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,935,1162,26],"class_list":["post-87945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-changpeng-zhao","tag-court-cases","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87947,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87945\/revisions\/87947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}