Merit Peak, an offshore trading company controlled by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, received around $11 billion (nearly Rs. 90,890 crore) of client assets through a Seychelles-based firm set up to take customer deposits, a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows.
The SEC filing, which on Tuesday asked a US court to freeze Binance’s US assets, came a day after the SEC sued Binance, its billionaire CEO Zhao, and the operator of its US…