TREE NEWS update: On-chain sleuth ZachXBT said FinCEN’s claim that MEXC handled $16 billion in illicit funds “seems exaggerated” and called for the underlying data and peer comparisons to be published. He acknowledged MEXC’s historically lax AML/KYC policies but said he could flag hundreds of millions to billions in illicit activity at any major CEX including Binance, Coinbase, Bybit, OKX and Kraken. MEXC CEO Vugar Usi said the exchange has opened communication with FinCEN through a U.S. law firm.
ZachXBT Questions FinCEN’s $16B Illegal Funds Claim Against MEXC
The dispute shifts the question from whether MEXC had weak controls to whether FinCEN's figure is methodologically defensible, and ZachXBT's point that similar flows could be flagged at any major venue cuts against treating this as an MEXC-specific problem. That matters for the whole centralized exchange sector, since a benchmark that only lands on one platform invites arguments about selective enforcement. The open question is whether FinCEN or MEXC publishes the underlying data; absent that, the $16 billion figure stays a claim rather than a comparable metric.
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