Runyon claimed that he eventually quit making noise about this issue when he realized the exchange didn’t plan to take any action. Runyon claimed that he’d alerted Kraken’s compliance officer Steve Christie multiple times regarding this non-compliance starting in February 2019. Among the allegations made in Runyon’s suit was that Kraken was serving customers based in countries on the OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. The Times reported that the OFAC probe began shortly after Nathan Runyon, a former staffer in Kraken’s finance department, filed a wrongful termination suit against the exchange in November 2019. sanctions prohibiting exports of goods and services to Iranian residents. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has been investigating Kraken since 2019 for allegedly allowing customers in Iran to buy and sell various ‘crypto’ tokens in defiance of U.S. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the U.S.
authorities are reportedly investigating Kraken due to suspicions that the controversial cryptocurrency exchange has violated economic sanctions against Iran.
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