Crypto exchange and derivative trading platform BitMEX pled guilty Wednesday to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, saying that BitMEX willfully failed to establish, implement, and maintain an adequate anti-money laundering program. 

"As BitMEX’s founders and long-time employee admitted in federal court in 2022, the company, one of the leading cryptocurrency derivatives platforms in the world from 2015 to 2020, operated in the United States without any meaningful anti-money laundering program (AML), as required by federal law," Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in the statement.

BitMEX has faced serious legal problems in the U.S. since at least 2022.

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