SBF demande l'accès aux fonds FTX dans une lettre au juge

• SBF’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, wrote a letter to United States District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan as per Jan. 28 court documents.
• Cohen a demandé à Kaplan de laisser l'ancien PDG de FTX accéder aux fonds appartenant à la bourse.
• L'avocat a également demandé au juge d'autoriser SBF à avoir un contact illimité avec son thérapeute et son père.
• Cohen a également demandé à Kaplan d'autoriser Bankman-Fried à contacter tout employé ou agent d'un régulateur étranger en dehors de la présence d'avocats.

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The founder of the former multi-billion dollar crypto exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF in the crypto space, is making moves despite being in his parents’ home due to bail conditions. Interestingly, the collapse of FTX has affected many entreprises de cryptographie, médias, agences gouvernementales, et plus encore, et les créanciers continuent de s'accumuler, visant à liquider les actifs et à obtenir ce qu'ils peuvent. 

Documents judiciaires du 28 janvier montrent que l'avocat engagé par SBF, Mark Cohen, a écrit une lettre au juge du tribunal de district des États-Unis, Lewis Kaplan. Dans la lettre, Cohen a déclaré que Bankman-Fried devrait avoir accès aux fonds appartenant à la bourse et a ajouté que l'ancien PDG de la bourse n'était pas responsable des transactions non autorisées précédentes. 

En novembre 2022, FTX et sa branche américaine enquêtaient sur des transactions non autorisées, qui ont entraîné une sortie de plus de $659 millions selon les données Nansen. À ce moment-là, SBF a nié toute implication dans ces transactions alors que la bourse continuait d'enquêter sur les transactions. 

In the letter, Cohen noted that SBF was “prohibited from accessing or transferring any FTX or Alameda assets or cryptocurrency, including assets or cryptocurrency purchased with funds from FTX or Alameda,” as per the request of the US authorities on January 3. The authorities noted at that time that Bankman-Fried couldn’t possibly be behind these transactions, adding that a federal probe was underway. 

“Nearly three weeks have passed since the initial pretrial conference, and we assume that the Government’s investigation has confirmed what Mr. Bankman-Fried has said all along; namely, that he did not access and transfer these assets,” said Cohen in the letter to Kaplan, while adding that the defense informed authorities “as soon as we became aware of the transfers to provide notification.”

Finally, the lawyers for SBF noted that since the former FTX executive wasn’t behind these transactions, he should be given access to the funds belonging to the exchange. 

“Given that the sole basis advanced for seeking that condition has not been supported, we believe that the bail condition imposed at the conference should be removed,” read the letter. 

Comme indiqué précédemment par Bitnation, les procureurs fédéraux cherchent à limiter l'accès that SBF has to people who are former employees of FTX or Alameda Research to prevent possible attempts from Bankman-Fried to influence witnesses in his case. However, the defense added that this is not possible because that would mean that he wouldn’t be able to talk to his therapist, who is a former employee at the exchange. 

“According to public sources, FTX and Alameda had approximately 350 employees. Each of these current and former employees could have information crucial to Mr. Bankman-Fried’s defense. Requiring Mr. Bankman-Fried to include counsel in every communication with a former or current FTX employee would place an unnecessary strain on his resources and prejudice his ability to defend this case,” read the letter.

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