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Milestone
Bitcoin
2017

BTC-e FinCEN Civil Penalty

FinCEN assessed a $110M civil penalty against BTC-e for AML violations tied to ransomware and darknet activity.

Event date: 2017-07-26
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Key Facts

Peak metric$110M penalty
OutcomePenalty issued; operator charged
ChainBitcoin
Year2017
Typemilestone
Tags
exchange
regulation
aml
law-enforcement