{"id":582792,"date":"2023-06-23T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=582792"},"modified":"2023-06-23T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:27:08","slug":"belgium-binance-cease-all-crypto-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/belgium-binance-cease-all-crypto-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Regulator Orders Binance To Cease All Crypto Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Belgium\u2019s Financial Services and Markets Authority has ordered Binance to cease its operations in the country.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The regulator has taken issue with the exchange offering crypto services from non-EEA countries.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The FSMA has indicated that the crypto exchange may have to face criminal charges for its actions.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The exchange has been asked to return all crypto assets belonging to Belgian customers.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Financial Services and Markets Authority of Belgium has ordered Binance to immediately cease its operations in the country and stop offering crypto and custody services to Belgian customers. The order comes amid mounting legal troubles for the crypto exchange, which was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month for illegally operating a securities exchange in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Binance May Be Liable For Criminal Charges In Belgium<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsma.be\/en\/news\/fsma-orders-binance-cease-immediately-all-offers-virtual-currency-services-belgium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a> by Belgium\u2019s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/binance-under-investigation-in-france\/\">Binance<\/a> has been ordered to take immediate measures to return crypto assets belonging to Belgian clients. The regulator directed the crypto exchange to contact their clients and entertain any instructions related to the return of their assets. The FSMA accused Binance of violating a law that prevents firms from non-European Economic Area countries from offering services in Belgium.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Persons or firms governed by the law of a country that is not a member of the European Economic Area are prohibited from offering or providing, within Belgium, by way of a professional activity \u2013 even if supplementary or ancillary \u2013 exchange services between virtual currencies and legal currencies or custody wallet services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the FSMA, several requests were made to Binance for information related to its operations from an EEA member country. The exchange reportedly failed to demonstrate that the crypto services being provided in Belgium were carried out from a legal entity governed by an EEA country. The regulator further stated that the Crown Prosecutor of Brussels had been informed of Binance\u2019s acts which are liable to constitute a criminal offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">1, 2, 3\u2026<\/p>&mdash; CZ \ud83d\udd36 Binance (@cz_binance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1672325217719406592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no official response from Binance at the time of writing. However, CEO Changpeng Zhao took to Twitter to share his famous \u201c4\u201d tweet, which he uses to convey to his followers any ongoing FUD against his crypto firm. \u201c1, 2, 3\u2026..\u201d Zhao tweeted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium&#8217;s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has ordered Binance to cease all operations and crypto services. The exchange has been ordered to return all crypto assets belonging to Belgian clients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":582794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108073,17,2,26],"tags":[108909,1119,1236,108973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582796,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582792\/revisions\/582796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}