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The US Justice Department announces it is fining Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, a total of $4.3 billion over violations of anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. "This is one of the largest penalties we've ever obtained from a corporate defendant in a criminal matter," US Attorney General Merrick Garland tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Lisa O. Monaco, Deputy Attorney General, says authorities have arrested the owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato for alleged money laundering, saying the move has "disrupted a busy corner of this criminal ecosystem." SOUNDBITE
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a Eulogy at the memorial of the 21 teens who died under mysterious circumstances in a Tavern in east London. In his speech he lays blame "at the feet of those who are making money off the dreams and the lives of young people of South Africa" and goes on to announce that bars caught selling alcohol to those underage would be shut down permanently, moving forward. SOUNDBITE