Binance was soliciting users to “deposit” money via a Seychelles shellco named “Key Vision Development” at
@silvergatebank
. Then this entity vanished and was struck off Seychelles corporate register. Where did the money go
@cz_binance
$SI?
1/ We learned $SI banks
@HuobiGlobal
, a lax-KYC offshore exchange where criminals, including North Korea's Lazarus, have laundered Billions. Huobi is now run by Justin Sun, an accused sex trafficker who FBI is reportedly investigating for money laundering. (We are short $SI).
$SI Recently subpoenaed Silvergate bank records reveal $425 million in transfers from $SI crypto bank accounts to South American money launderers. Affadavit from investigation into crypto crime ring linked to smugglers/drug traffickers (we are short):
The problem with
@zerohedge
is they don’t disclose they own $SI and an obscure portion of their site reveals they are paid to tout these frauds and scams to their 1.5 million followers .
1/
@Reuters
investigation into Cartels using crypto profiled a notorious sex trafficker caught laundering money using Bitso, a Mexican & Colombian crypto operator.
We learned
@silvergatebank
is banking Bitso in undisclosed foray and are short $SI.
Reuters has records showing $400 million of these secret Binance transfers flowing through $SI . Phenomenal investigative reporting by
@_tom_wilson_
@AABerwick
Criminals including North Korean hackers laundered Billions via
@binance
who used
@silvergatebank
account for now-defunct Seychelles entity. Then $SI began banking the “Tai Chi” entity
@BinanceUS
created to evade regulators where half US compliance team quit over KYC|AML.
NEW: We investigated Binance founder CZ's strategy to evade regulators, particularly in the US, where the crypto giant is under DOJ investigation. We interviewed some 30 associates and reviewed thousands of unreported company messages, emails and documents
"Binance declines to say where it is based. It doesn't disclose basic financial information". Yet FDIC-insured
@silvergatebank
banks and promotes this CCP-backed enterprise where foreign criminals gather to launder Billions.
@Jkylebass
$SI
The world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance, is battling to shore up confidence after a surge in customer withdrawals. Yet its core business remains mostly hidden from public view, a
@Reuters
analysis of Binance’s corporate filings shows
The scale of $SI customer malfeasance and money laundering is simply extraordinary.
@silvergatebank
even publicly touted
@BinanceUS
as a “customer in good standing” to unsuspecting users.
No disclosure from $SI about this but can confirm the bank's co-founder and chief credit officer is OUT, either jumped ship or was terminated. He updated his bio on business school website:
$SI Interesting from
@kateberry1
about implications of Silvergate tapping the Federal Home Loan Bank for $4.3B. FHLB designed to support housing but now propping up crypto bank frequented by criminals. "The $4.3 billion is clearly at risk and leaves the FDIC holding the bag".
Documents reveal $SI even opened 12 bank accounts for the "Scammer Crypto Kid" who orchestrated $90M Ponzi Scheme. 20 year old Australian who was stealing money to pay "Sugar Babies" yet CEO Lane publicly claims "We only bank institutions who are also serious about regulation".
New declaration from DEA Agent reveals latest example of how Mexican Gangs launder their trafficking proceeds through Binance. $SBNY $SI
@JohnReedStark
@cz_binance
FTX's Dan Friedberg now declares he "had no idea" the money was missing. Yet his law firm incorporated the FAKE electronics company, North Dimension, which used $SI bank account to steal and launder Billions.
@SBF_FTX
So $KKR now stiffing doctors at Envision just over a year after completing an LBO involving a ridiculous $7B+ in debt. Yet another example of the debt / private equity / greed bubble that has worsened this crisis.
@AlderLaneeggs
@FriendlyBearSA
@WallStCynic
Today's emergency
@SECGov
action reveals $SI hosted the "BKCoin" Ponzi Scheme via numerous bank accounts. Has anyone ever banked more frauds than
@silvergatebank
?
Seven $GSX whistleblowers have emerged to describe the elaborate fraud in court documents and detail how this largely fake company has falsified most of its student enrollments. Corroborating research of
@muddywatersre
@CitronResearch
@ResearchGrizzly
. 1/
$SI SDNY now investigating “money flows” between Barry Silbert’s DCG companies. They have close ties with Alan Lane as the bank’s very first crypto customer. Silbert later invested in
@silvergatebank
and his website still claims $SI as a “portfolio company”.
Yet another $SI customer indicted for a giant alleged fraud and money laundering scheme. Silvergate now set to close bank accounts for all customers by March 31st.
Ho wan kwok, a/k/a “miles guo,” arrested for orchestrating over $1 billion dollar fraud conspiracy
Over $630 Million of Alleged Fraud Proceeds Seized by U.S. Government
$SI Nexo raided by authorities in Bulgarian money laundering and organized crime investigation. Captures from
@intel_jakal
show Nexo using $SI bank account via Circle.
"a person officially found to have financed terrorist activities had used the platform"
3/ Numerous reports of criminals using Huobi to launder money. Among these, researchers even found high volume of direct interactions between Houbi and the now-seized darknet Hydra Market. Reuters reported that North Korea's Lazarus also used Huobi. $SI
Even $SI's largest shareholder,
@BrendanBlumer
appears to have recently pulled the plug on his offshore crypto exchange's partnership with
@silvergatebank
. Now banks with $SBNY
6/ Sun took over Huobi in October 2022 after the exchange was purchased by an unknown party.
@verge
reported Sun is under FBI investigation and Chinese media previously accused him of "money laundering and sex trafficking". $SI
10/ Here are more captures of Huobi soliciting users to deposit funds via the Silvergate Exchange Network $SI in case of deletion. A coin issued by Huobi also solicits money via Silvergate.
New short report coming soon. Documents show that alleged ringleaders of a fraud that devastated one company have migrated to hold key positions at a highly-touted mid cap. Criminal charges unsealed, investors unaware.
Now the “ANGEL OF DEATH” has appeared at $SI. Alan Lane hires same attorneys as fraudster Parker Petit, who was trying to weasel his way out of indictment when he retained this crew. They Once even tried to bribe
@AlderLaneEggs
.
@FriendlyBearSA
@MUNDASPORTS
@MotherCabriniNY
4/ Huobi was founded in China but even the CCP busted a large money laundering gang using Huboi . Thailand recently revoked Huobi's license citing compliance deficiencies. Yet $SI appears to have no problem banking them.
9/ Silvergate tells investors its customer diligence includes site visits, "reputation review", "negative news", reviews of audits, and "culture of compliance". Yet problems
@HuobiGlobal
are open and obvious. We struggle to understand how $SI could have possibly done this work.
The $SI Director who bailed today is definitely on tilt . Ranting about regulators and “operation choke point” after Billions were laundered by criminals on her watch. This follows revelations FTX cut a deal to “invest”in her firm’s crypto project while she was on $SI board
At
@HuobiGlobal
, we are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. That's why we are proud to announce that we will be hiring more female employees in the future.
5/ Reports describe how fraudsters run rampant on Huobi to orchestrate various scams. Yet lawyers for victims have been left with only a Seychelles mailing address, where Huobi has no physical presence, allowing Criminals to "escape with their loot". $SI
“The FDIC estimates the cost of the failure of Signature Bank to its Deposit Insurance Fund to be approximately $2.5 billion.” So much for the
@BarneyFrank
“the bank was solvent!” narrative $SBNY
The FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement for substantially all deposits and certain loan portfolios of Signature Bridge Bank by Flagstar bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, Inc.
$NYCB
Now Nexo takes down its YouTube video instructing users to send money to
@silvergatebank
via Circle following
@mcelarier
expose. Nexo is the recently raided crypto exchange Bulgarian prosecutors have implicated in “large scale” money laundering even used to finance terrorism. $SI
$SBNY “They opened me an account pretty quickly,” said Anna Sorokin, who was convicted of stealing from the bank to fund the glitzy Manhattan lifestyle of pretend German socialite Anna Delvey.
via
@WSJ
$SI So the bank's featured customer
@BittrexExchange
opens accounts for "Daffy Duck" and did business with Iranians, yet
@silvergatebank
CEO continues to tout his purported customer due diligence?
@RebeccaRettig1
7/ In a video, Sun says he "collaborated" with
@silvergatebank
for a coin issued by his company, Tron. Tron had earlier forged a partnership with Alameda, the fraudulent FTX money laundering affiliate, as a "whitelisted institution". $SI also banks this.
#TUSD
is the first regulated stablecoin we collaborated with. TUSD now has collaborated with both Signature Bank and Silvergate Bank and supported by mainstream exchanges in the world. For example, Binance, Huobi, OKEx etc.
Have a feeling the millions of dollars Steward wired from looted US hospitals to Swiss bank accounts controlled by indicted foreign money launderers may not be sitting well with
@DOJCrimDiv
$MPW
$SI Now appears to have DELETED the testimonial featuring
@BittrexExchange
from their website following yesterdays' revelations regarding OFAC violations, "Donald Duck" accounts, and fraud/Tether allegations. Does
@silvergatebank
have any idea who they are doing business with?
8/ Sun is described as a "connoisseur of bank accounts" by
@verge
because "banks froze his money so frequently he needed to spread his fortune across numerous accounts". Before $SI, Sun says crypto bankers would “get arrested or even charged for money laundering”.
$GSX Remember this document published by
@muddywatersre
demonstrates that Chairman Chen has mortgaged 6,000,000 ordinary shares of this complete and utter fraud to
@CreditSuisse
.
$SI Keeps trying to fool investors. Just deleted Derek Eisele, the co-founder/president/chief credit officer , from their website but didn’t mention this key departure to investors during call today . Head of AML also appears to be gone but zero disclosure .
No disclosure from $SI about this but can confirm the bank's co-founder and chief credit officer is OUT, either jumped ship or was terminated. He updated his bio on business school website:
Criminals have used $SI to steal and launder Billions of dollars and this is how the CEO responded to a basic question from an analyst on the last earnings call.
Sunfirst Bank was seized and the Vice-Chair sent to prison for money laundering after processing several hundred million in illegal online poker transactions. $SI created a network used to transfer $1 Trillion, including on behalf of offshore crypto exchanges and fraudsters.
So $RILY appears to have been hiding the giant $200 million loan to Kahn's Vintage Capital hedge fund as a "consumer / retail" loan in previous earnings releases.
6/ Simply astonishing that any US bank would be willing and able take these kind of AML risks, much less $SI who is demonstrably ill-equipped to manage them. Especially considering Fed warnings about obvious risks of banking this space.
Now we learn $RILY has more than $500 million of balance sheet exposure to Kahn and his companies. Admits to making a massive $200 million previously undisclosed loan to Vintage- the Kahn hedge fund specifically identified as receiving ill-gotten ponzi proceeds (below)
BREAKING NEWS: $RILY for the first time discloses that they have over a $200MM loan to Brian Kahn on top of $280MM in FRG. This was highly material and undisclosed. It's supposedly secured by $FRG as our research confirmed. Why was this never disclosed?
@AlderLaneEggs
Barron's corrects last week's articles claiming Blackrock was "bullish" on $SI and that helped incite buying frenzy. Blackrock's ETF filing "almost certainly doesn't reflect a fundamental view on the stock, but a shift in index positions". Thank you
@chodapost
for updating.
"To satisfy the withdrawals, Silvergate liquidated debt it was holding on its balance sheet. The $718 million it lost selling the debt far exceeds the bank’s total profits since at least 2013."
$SI
$SI Pure Comedy. CEO still touting "robust" customer due diligence process at the town hall today as "strategic advantage". Meanwhile former Enron, now FTX liquidator: "Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls".
No wonder the CEO of Marcum immediately lawyered up after receiving a detailed letter about $RILY “no one respond to the email or send any other email about this” .
@FriendlyBearSA
@AlderLaneEggs
@WolfpackReports
The $MDXG whistleblowers who continued to speak out despite Parker Petit's illegal efforts to destroy them should be admired and respected. They deserve large reparations.
This second Barron's $SI article is
@truedenton
walking back the highly misleading claims he made in Thursday's piece. He now admits Blackrock investment "may represent only passive fund reshuffling" after falsely portraying it as evidence Blackrock was "bullish" on the stock.
The fake North Dimension "electronics" website reported by
@gmorgenson
makes mockery of $SI customer diligence claims. Processing billions for this obviously fake company points to staggering money laundering
@silvergatebank
.
Kahn amassed his controlling FRG stake using Prophecy Ponzi proceeds according to below lawsuit. Highly problematic for $RILY's $200 million loan to Kahn's hedge fund backed by same FRG shares. No wonder $RILY was concealing this by falsely labeling it a "retail/consumer" loan.
$SI "Intelligencer has obtained documents showing that, in addition to FTX, Silvergate has been the go-to bank for more than a dozen crypto companies that ended up under investigation, shut down, fined or in bankruptcy". Great profile of the
@silvergatebank
situation.
$PEN now seems to be setting up the 'everyone else bribes doctors' defense in private calls with analysts
@AlderLaneeggs
@QCMFunds
The problem is that competitors didn't sell defective devices that killed patients
Pick almost any stock in the country and Blackrock’s passive ETFs will be a large holder. Seeing more promoters like
@truedenton
use these annual disclosures to entice retail investors into falsely believing this “news” reflects a fundamental view or endorsement by Blackrock. $SI
2/ Bitso's website currently touts that crypto users can move money anywhere in the world "as easy as ordering a pizza" and with "total protection" because
@silvergatebank
is FDIC insured.
1/ $SI Website now features customer testimonial from
@BittrexExchange
. Baffling choice considering Treasury recently announced action against Bittrex for AML/BSA violations including $263 million in crypto transactions involving Iran, Cuba, Syria and other sanctioned locales.
$SI Banking offshore exchange of their largest shareholder
@BrendanBlumer
who renounced his US citizenship amidst allegations of orchestrating "biggest of all crypto frauds". Pay to play?
@Alan_JPCatholic
ANALYSIS: Silvergate Bank's future becomes increasingly murky as its customers retreat and stock price plunges. Here's what you should know.
@jesseahamilton
reports