The legal struggle between crypto exchange Binance and the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) continues. The SEC has accused Binance.US of noncooperation in the ongoing investigation. The agency points out that Binance.US’s holding company, BAM, has produced only 220 documents during the discovery process. Many of those materials “consist of unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures,” the SEC said. The regulator added that BAM has refused to produce essential witnesses for deposition, instead agreeing only to four depositions of witnesses it has unilaterally deemed appropriate.
Meanwhile, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order granting the SEC’s motion to unseal or remove the redaction from 18 sealed documents and another nine partially sealed or redacted documents. The partially sealed documents total 117 pages. Among them are internal Binance.US documents, emails and SEC court filings, including the memorandum on Binance.US’s compliance with SEC discovery efforts.
Amid lawsuits from the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Binance.US announced that
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