BitMEX founders plead guilty to money laundering and could be arrested

BitMEX founders plead guilty to money laundering and could be arrested BitMEX founders Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo pleaded guilty to violating the anti-money laundering (AML) provisions of the United States Bank Secrecy Act. As revealed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the founders of the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange have pleaded guilty to facilitating acts of money laundering. Officials said the derivatives trading platform was "in fact a money laundering platform" due to its intentional failure to implement AML and KYC (Know Your Customer) programs. According to the DOJ, both Hayes and Delo confirmed that BitMEX had weak…