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In February, @bdanweiss and I broke the story that Binance had fired top investigators who claimed to have found evidence of Iranian sanctions violations routed through the crypto platform. Yesterday, the DOJ filed a civil complaint detailing how two Chinese accounts—the subjects of our reporting—used accounts at Binance to launder the proceeds of black-market sales of Iranian oil (It did not accuse Binance of any wrongdoing.) https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-seeks-forfeiture-61-million-cryptocurrency-iranian-militarys-black-market