BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Negotiating Surrender to US Authorities
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According to court documents shared with cryptocurrency publication The Block, BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes could surrender to US authorities in Hawaii next month.
Hayes and BitMEX co-owners Greg Dwyer and Ben Delo, as well as Head of Business Development Greg Dwyer, were charged in October with “willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (‘AML’) program” for the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange.
While Reed has already been arrested, the other three men are at large. According to court documents, Hayes is in Singapore. Dwyer’s Twitter account lists his location as Bermuda. Delo is a British national.
With regards to Hayes, Assistant US Attorney Jessica Greenwood told the US Dictrict Court of the Southern District of New York: “We, with respect to defendant Hayes, have discussed a surrender date of April 6, 2021 in Hawaii.” Hayes would then appear virtually before a judge. Delo, too, seems prepared to turn himself in.
“He is planning, or at least counsel has represented that he is planning, to appear in New York. We are working with the FBI and Border Patrol to obtain immigration authorization for him to be permitted to come here.”
Dwyer is the wild card, according to prosecutors. “We have also been in discussions with his counsel about obtaining his appearance,” Greenwood said. “We were unable to negotiate a voluntary surrender so we have begun extradition proceedings against him in Bermuda.”
Decrypt is updating this story as more information becomes available.
