The Securities and Trade Fee filed an emergency movement in Washington, D.C. federal courtroom Tuesday night, asking a decide to freeze the belongings of Binance’s U.S. platform and repatriate each fiat foreign money and crypto held by the service’s prospects.

The freezing order solely applies Binance’s two U.S. holding firms, to not the non-U.S. regulated worldwide alternate. The order would apply to dozens of accounts held at Axos Financial institution, the defunct Silvergate Financial institution, Prime Belief, and different establishments.

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Two overseas entities additionally managed by Zhao, Sigma Chain and Advantage Peak, served as conduits for billions of {dollars} of buyer cash that was improperly commingled with Binance’s funds, the SEC has alleged.

The SEC filed swimsuit towards Binance and Zhao on Monday, alleging on 13 separate counts that the alternate and Zhao had labored to defraud buyers, improperly commingle funds, and function as an unregistered dealer, supplier, and clearing home.

The emergency restraining order was essential, the regulator argued, to “forestall the dissipation of accessible belongings for any judgment, given the Defendants’ years of violative conduct, disregard of the legal guidelines of the US.”

The order additionally compels Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, to “present trigger why a preliminary injunction” towards Zhao and his two holding firms “shouldn’t be entered.” The restraining order would additionally forestall all three entities from destroying proof.