What's wrong with the WSJ investigation on money laundering through crypto currency exchange? Expert commentary
Source:On the Eve edition of the Wall Street Journal in its investigation cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift is one of the biggest culprits in laundering criminal money through coins. A few days later the CEO of trading platform Eric Voorhees commented on the presented data. According to him, the media simply do not understand the principles of cryptocurrency. As a result, they therefore publish unfounded accusations.
In the investigation of the newspaper says that in two years ShapeShift laundered $ 9 billion of criminal money out of the total of 88 billion. In an attempt to divert the attention of the regulators and avoid audits of the company since October 1, have tightened requirements for clients to combating money laundering, wrote the WSJ.
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Voorhees believes that the newspaper published false information. According to him, ShapeShift collaborated with The Wall Street Journal for six months, but most of the most important data on the activities of the trading platform were not included in the final text.
Journalists have obtained information under false pretenses, and ultimately distorted it. In addition, the magazine's staff in the course of work demonstrated a misunderstanding of the principles of cryptocurrency.
The Head of the exchange said that the staff of the WSJ refused to accept the trading platform information about suspicious activity of individual users. Meanwhile, the journalists themselves have collected these data and shared them with the exchange. The administration could immediately block the fraudulent accounts, he added.
In the blog post, the company clarifies that the journalists to such an extent do not understand the digital assets that have attributed to the exchanger laundering of "dirty money". In The Wall Street Journal has not commented on the word Voorhees reports .
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