A US judge has granted Binance’s motion to transfer a case involving allegations it facilitated money laundering to the Southern District of Florida due to a similar case that had already been before the courts there.

The case, filed in August 2024 in Washington, focused on the same core issue as a suit filed in June 2023 in Florida, accusing Binance of allowing cybercriminals to use the data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/crypto-and-money-laundering-what-you-need-to-know” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>platform for money laundering, US District Judge Barbara Rothstein data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://assets.law360news.com/2328000/2328157/https-ecf-wawd-uscourts-gov-doc1-197111734981.pdf” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>said in an April 21 order. 

“Although the two complaints describe the proposed classes in…

A US judge has granted Binance’s motion to transfer a case involving allegations it facilitated money laundering to the Southern District of Florida due to a similar case that had already been before the courts there.

The case, filed in August 2024 in Washington, focused on the same core issue as a suit filed in June 2023 in Florida, accusing Binance of allowing cybercriminals to use the data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/crypto-and-money-laundering-what-you-need-to-know” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>platform for money laundering, US District Judge Barbara Rothstein data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://assets.law360news.com/2328000/2328157/https-ecf-wawd-uscourts-gov-doc1-197111734981.pdf” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>said in an April 21 order. 

“Although the two complaints describe the proposed classes in…