Ex-Binance CCO accused of aiding and abetting CFTC rule violations
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2023-03-27T21:26:00
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged Binance and its founder with operating an illegal digital assets exchange.
The agency’s announcement Monday also included charges against former Binance Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim for aiding and abetting the exchange’s alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations. Entities Binance Holdings Limited, Binance Holdings (IE) Limited, and Binance (Services) Holdings Limited were each named in the complaint, along with founder Changpeng Zhao.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, cited a number of violations at Binance, including:
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