Binance senior compliance staff flee financial crime roles as CCO Perlman eyes exit amid DOJ Iran probe
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Promote with Leviathan News$1B+ in Tether routed to Iran-linked wallets via Tron between March 2024 and August 2025 — entirely within the post-$4.3B settlement monitoring period. Binance fired the investigators who surfaced it, Senator Blumenthal opened an inquiry flagging $1.7B across Iran proxies and Russia's shadow fleet, and now the remaining compliance team is sprinting for the door. Perlman was the "we're reformed" hire brought in after CZ's guilty plea; him leaving while Binance simultaneously claims it's "unaware of any investigation" is compliance theater closing night.
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