Russian criminals use Binance accounts (and actually every exchange, including Coinbase) registered in the names of jobless 25 year old women from CIS countries. You can buy these accounts on basically any gray market forum with a marketplace section including sites like exploit.in or even forums used by 15 year olds like mpgh and ogusers. I am doubtful that a Binance customer data leak would have anywhere near as many interesting people as say the Credit Suisse leaks.

It's also curious that there was no mention of blockchain analysis anywhere in the complaint or even an attempt to quantify the amount of criminal funds on Binance and the complaint instead relies solely on a handful of excerpted chat logs to show compliance failings (the CFTC is obviously not going to mention all the times they ended up blocking the bad accounts). They also don't even list any specific Hamas transactions or say that Binance knowingly processed them.

> Kalanick and Neumann didn't steal money or finance terrorists. The wrongdoing in crypto/web3 is on another level.

Not VC but ever hear of Marc Rich? He was ultimately pardoned after being accused of evading 8 figures (in 1983 dollars) of taxes, trading with Iraq, Iran during the hostage crisis, the USSR during the grain embargo, and South Africa during Apartheid [0]. He lived in Switzerland just fine for a couple decades and the only trouble he ever faced was attempted kidnapping by American law enforcement [1]. He paved the way for the awesome company we now know as Glencore.

0. https://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/house-event/LC... 1. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-king-of-oil--discloses-his--se...