Wednesday, December 14, 2022

FTX Boss Sam Bankman-Fried Charged with Defrauding Investors by US - BBC News

Dec 13, 2022 | Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been charged with defrauding investors of billions of dollars by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC said Mr Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, had “built a house of cards on a foundation of deception”. It is alleged Mr Bankman-Fried used FTX customers’ funds for his privately-held crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research LLC. A court filing shows FTX owed its 50 largest creditors almost $3.1bn.


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