Lithuania Fines Cryptocurrency Exchange $9M for Russia Sanctions Violations
Virtual currency wallet and exchange operator Payeer was fined nearly $9 million for violating international sanctions, Lithuania's Financial Crime Investigation Service announced. Payeer operated the cryptocurrency exchange "Payeer.com," which Russian customers were allowed to use to carry out transactions in…
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Russian roubles. Funds were sent to and from sanctioned Russian banks, the Lithuanian authority said. Per EU law, the exchange was supposed to be conducting customer identification to ensure sanctioned parties were not using its services, close sanctioned parties' accounts and tell the investigation service of the suspension. The service was found to have violated EU sanctions for over 1.5 years.