Binance told the Senate its transaction volume with four major Iranian exchanges did not exceed $110,000 last year. Reporting from Fortune and the New York Times traced $1.7 billion in flows from Bina...

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<p>Binance told the Senate its transaction volume with four major Iranian exchanges did not exceed $110,000 last year. Reporting from Fortune and the New York Times traced $1.7 billion in flows from Binance-linked accounts to Iran-linked entities.</p>
<adv/><p>Senator Richard Blumenthal now is concerned that the exchange might have misled Congress about that.</p>
<adv/><p>In a follow-up letter to Binance co-chief executive (CEO) Richard Teng, Blumenthal expressed his concern that the exchange might have provided “misrepresentations or misleading information to the Subcommittee and to the public.”</p>
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<blockquote>US senators call Binance ‘repeat offender’ over $2B Iran transfers</blockquote>
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<p>The senator, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, demands Binance produce documents justifying its prior March 6th response and its $110,000 claim.</p>
<p>The escalation follows weeks of reporting by Fortune’s Leo Schwartz and Ben Weiss, as well as the New York Times. Their investigations traced hundreds of millions in tether (<span>$USDT</span>) from Binance accounts to wallets tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Houthis of Yemen.</p>
<p>Separately, Blumenthal’s original February 24 letter also inquired about payments to crew members of Russia’s sanctions-evading oil fleet.</p>
<h2>The $110,000 claim versus $1.7 billion in flows</h2>
<p>Binance dismissed the allegations on March 6 as “demonstrably false, unsupported by credible evidence, and defamatory in several material respects.”</p>
<p>The exchange said its direct transactions with four Iranian exchanges had fallen to no more than $110,000 across the year. Binance highlighted its proactive work against two intermediaries, Hexa Whale and Blessed Trust, to limit “indirect exposure to wallet addresses with potential ties to Iran.”</p>
<p>Blumenthal’s new letter questions that corporate framing.</p>
<p>He asks about Fortune’s reporting of a VIP account registered to a 79-year-old Chinese resident moving $439 million in <span>$USDT</span> from Binance to an outside wallet. That wallet forwarded most of those funds to Entity A, an intermediary cluster that Fortune identified as Iran-linked. Entity A allegedly has a financial connection with Nobitex, for example, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, as well as IRGC and Houthi wallets.</p>
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<p>richard blumenthal has sent a follow-up letter to binance citing reporting from @leomschwartz, me, and NYT: pic.twitter.com/05o1w3F6rn</p>
— Ben Weiss (@bdanweiss) April 1, 2026</blockquote>
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<p>A second Chinese VIP, an ostensibly 38-year-old woman, allegedly moved nearly $200 million through the same pipeline. Reporters also flagged the possibility that both accounts could have been accessed from the same device.</p>
<p>Worse, Blumenthal’s letter notes that the New York Times reported that Binance labeled some of these accounts with manual instructions, “<strong>Don’t block. Internal accounts.</strong>”</p>
<p>One Iranian national who sent crypto fees directly to Entity A had appeared in a United Nations Security Council report on smuggling for Iran and North Korea.</p>
<h2>Senator gives Binance two weeks to respond</h2>
<p>Blumenthal’s letter lays out a timeline of allegations. Binance, the senator says, took two months to respond to law enforcement on Hexa Whale, then took another two months to remove the entity. Blessed Trust, even worse, allegedly lasted at least five months as a Binance vendor despite warnings about its alleged terrorist financing.</p>
<p>The senator now demands exact dates. When did these entities open Binance accounts, start transfers, receive flags from Binance staff, and become subjects of suspicious activity reports to US law enforcement? The senator also asks whether Binance has “removed, weakened, or relaxed any compliance policies” since January 2025.</p>
<p>The letter marks the third major escalation about Binance this year. Blumenthal’s February 24 inquiry called Binance a “repeat offender.” Previously, 11 Senate Democrats urged the Treasury and DOJ to investigate. The Wall Street Journal reported that the DOJ opened a probe into Iran’s use of Binance to evade sanctions.</p>
<p>Binance, meanwhile, has sued the Wall Street Journal for defamation.</p>
<p>The political backdrop makes the compliance issues conspicuous.</p>
<p>President Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) in October 2025 after his guilty plea to Bank Secrecy Act violations. The SEC also voluntarily dismissed its Binance lawsuit in 2025.</p>
<p>Binance then became what Blumenthal called a “vital engine” for World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto venture. Blumenthal’s February letter noted that the vast majority of WLFI’s <span>$USD1</span> stablecoin sat within Binance accounts.</p>
<p>Abu Dhabi’s MGX settled a $2 billion Binance investment through that <span>$USD1</span> stablecoin.</p>
<p>The price of BNB, the token that Binance issued, is <strong>down 31% year to date</strong>. Binance equity is not publicly traded.</p>
<p>Blumenthal gave Binance CEO Teng until April 14 to respond.</p>

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US Senator asks if Binance lied to Congress about Iran

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<div><div><p>幣安向參議院表示，去年其與四家伊朗主要交易所的交易額不超過11​​萬美元。但《財富》雜誌和《紐約時報》的報道追蹤到，有17億美元的資金從與幣安關聯的賬戶流向了與伊朗有關的實體。</p><adv/><p>參議員理查德·布盧門撒爾現在擔心，這次交流可能誤導了國會。</p><adv/><p>在隨後寫給幣安聯席首席執行官 Richard Teng 的一封信中，布盧門塔爾表達了他的擔憂，認為該交易所可能向小組委員會和公眾提供了“虛假陳述或誤導性信息”。</p><figure><div><blockquote>美國參議員稱幣安是“慣犯”，因為該公司涉嫌向伊朗轉移20億美元資金。</blockquote><iframe/></div></figure><p>這位參議員是參議院常設調查小組委員會的資深民主黨成員，他要求幣安公司提供文件，以證明其 3 月 6 日的回應及其 11 萬美元的索賠是合理的。</p><p>此次事件升級源於《財富》雜誌的利奧·施瓦茨和本·韋斯以及《紐約時報》數週的報道。他們的調查追蹤到數億美元的Tether（ <span>USDT</span> ）從幣安賬戶流向與伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊（IRGC）和也門胡塞武裝有關的錢包。</p><p>此外，布盧門塔爾在 2 月 24 日的信中還詢問了向俄羅斯規避制裁的石油船隊船員支付款項的情況。</p><h2> 11萬美元的索賠金額與17億美元的資金流動形成鮮明對比</h2><p>幣安於 3 月 6 日駁斥了這些指控，稱其“明顯不實，缺乏可信證據支持，並且在多個實質性方面構成誹謗”。</p><p>該交易所表示，其與四家伊朗交易所的直接交易額全年已降至不超過11​​萬美元。幣安強調，其已積極採取措施打擊兩家中間商Hexa 巨鯨和Blessed Trust，以限制“與可能與伊朗有關聯的錢包地址的間接接觸”。</p><p>布盧門塔爾的新信函對這種企業框架提出了質疑。</p><p>他詢問《財富》雜誌關於一名79歲中國居民名下注冊的VIP賬戶將價值4.39億<span>美元的USDT</span>從幣安轉移到外部錢包的報道。該錢包隨後將大部分資金轉發給了實體A，《財富》雜誌認定實體A與伊朗有關聯。據稱，實體A與伊朗最大的加密貨幣交易所Nobitex以及伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊和胡塞武裝的錢包存在財務聯繫。</p><figure><div><blockquote><p>理查德·布盧門塔爾已向幣安發送了一封后續信函，信中引用了@leomschwartz、我和《紐約時報》的報道：pic.twitter.com/05o1w3F6rn</p> — Ben Weiss (@bdanweiss) 2026年4月1日</blockquote></div></figure><p>據稱，另一名中國VIP，一位38歲的女性，也通過同一渠道轉移了近2億美元。記者還指出，這兩個賬戶有可能都是通過同一臺設備登錄的。</p><p>更糟糕的是，布盧門塔爾在信中指出，《紐約時報》報道稱，幣安給其中一些賬戶貼上了手動標籤：“<strong>不要封禁。內部賬戶。</strong> ”</p><p>一名直接向 A 實體支付加密貨幣費用的伊朗公民出現在聯合國安理會關於伊朗和朝鮮走私活動的報告中。</p><h2>參議員要求幣安兩週時間作出回應</h2><p>布盧門塔爾的信中列出了一系列指控的時間線。這位參議員指出，幣安花了兩個月時間才對執法部門關於六鯨（Hexa 巨鯨）的指控作出回應，之後又花了兩個月才將該實體移除。更糟糕的是，儘管此前已有關於Blessed Trust涉嫌資助恐怖主義的警告，該公司據稱仍作為幣安的供應商至少運營了五個月。</p><p>這位參議員現在要求提供確切日期。這些實體何時開設幣安賬戶、何時開始轉賬、何時收到幣安工作人員的警告，以及何時成為美國執法部門可疑活動報告的對象？這位參議員還詢問，自​​2025年1月以來，幣安是否“取消、削弱或放鬆了任何合規政策”。</p><p>這封信標誌著今年針對幣安的第三次重大事件升級。布盧門塔爾在2月24日的調查中稱幣安是“屢犯者”。此前，11名民主黨參議員敦促財政部和司法部展開調查。《華爾街日報》報道稱，司法部已對伊朗利用幣安規避制裁展開調查。</p><p>與此同時，幣安已起訴《華爾街日報》誹謗。</p><p>政治背景使得合規問題格外突出。</p><p> 2025年10月，特朗普總統赦免了幣安創始人趙長鵬（CZ），此前他已承認違反《銀行保密法》。同年，美國證券交易委員會（SEC）也主動撤銷了對幣安的訴訟。</p><p>隨後，幣安成為了布盧門塔爾所說的特朗普家族加密貨幣企業——世界自由金融公司（World Liberty Financial，簡稱WLFI）的“關鍵引擎”。布盧門塔爾在二月份的信中指出，WLFI發行的絕大部分<span>面值1美元的</span>穩定幣都存放在幣安賬戶中。</p><p>阿布扎比的 MGX 通過該<span>1 美元</span>穩定幣結算了對幣安的 20 億美元投資。</p><p>幣安發行的代幣BNB的價格<strong>今年迄今已下跌 31%</strong> 。幣安的股權不公開交易。</p><p>布盧門塔爾給了幣安CEO鄧炳強4月14日前作出回應。</p></div></div>

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