Reuters Says They Stand by Its Reporting On Binance Commingling Customer Funds
Reuters says it stands by its reporting following criticism it received from a Binance executive on its story that said the world’s largest crypto exchange commingled customer funds.
In a story published on Tuesday, Reuters reporters said that Binance commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021, citing sources familiar with the situation.
Binance Chief Communications Officer Patrick Hillmann later pushed back against the story in a lengthy five paragraph tweet.“We stand by our reporting,” a Reuters spokesperson said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.
Reuters reporters said it reviewed a bank record showing that in Feb. 10, 2021, the exchange allegedly “mixed $20 million from a corporate account with $15 million from an account that received customer money.” In the story, Binance denied mixing customer deposits and company funds.A Binance spokesperson told Reuters that the accounts were not used to accept user deposits and instead were used to facilitate user purchases of crypto.“There was no commingling at any time because these are 100% corporate funds,” Binance spokesperson Brad Jaffe said to Reuters.
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