An NBC News investigation has revealed fintech firm Block's Square and Cash App units are being examined by federal prosecutors over alleged sanctions violations and other regulatory non-compliance issues.
Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing Block’s crypto unit, working with whistleblowers to investigate the company's compliance practices, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Wednesday.
Due to inadequate checks, the company founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey allegedly processed crypto transactions linked to sanctioned countries and terrorist organizations, sources told NBC News. However, its allegedly laxed crypto practices are just one slice of the “widespread and yearslong compliance lapses” at Block’s Square and Cash App units, the publication reported.
“From the ground up, everything in the compliance section was flawed,” a former Block worker is quoted as saying to NBC News, claiming that "thousands" of questionable transactions went unreported to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, which enforces economic sanctions. Ex-employees furnished the publication with more than 100 pages of what they said was their former company’s internal documents, including records of exchanges between Block and sanctioned countries such as Russia and Iran from as recently as last year. The correspondence trail underscores claims that Block continued to facilitate transactions involving sanctioned entities long after it became aware of their abuses of its services.
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