I never read any article where CZ said that those articles saying their headquarter in Malta are all false news. He allowed everyone to be fooled and now just counters with 'it's FUD' statement?
they have always been shady about a lot of things as long as it satisfies their profitability. their HQ is one of them. and unfortunately it seems like majority of their users don't care about transparency either, they are lulled by the fact that Binance is still working find or in other words has not
yet pulled any major scam like all the similar exchanges before it.
kudos to OP for wanting to get to the bottom of it.