FTX-oprichter ontkent beschuldigingen van geknoei met getuigen: details

• FTX founder SBF’s lawyers deny allegations that Bankman-Fried attempted to influence witnesses.
• The prosecutors want SBF’s bail revoked, but the lawyers stated that attempts are “extremely thin.”
• De advocaten beweren dat de regering de privépapieren van Caroline Ellison heeft gelekt en niet van SBF.
• Ellison zal in oktober van dit jaar getuigen in de faillissementszaak van FTX.

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De oprichter van de failliete crypto-uitwisseling FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, ook wel bekend als SBF in de crypto-ruimte, heeft beschuldigingen van geknoei met getuigen ontkend volgens een nieuwe gang van zaken. De voormalige cryptomiljardair probeert te ontsnappen uit de gevangenis. De advocaten die de crypto-ondernemer vertegenwoordigen, zeiden dat SBF niet met verslaggevers van de New York Times sprak om getuigen te beïnvloeden of te intimideren. 

De advocaten die de oprichter en voormalig CEO van FTX vertegenwoordigen, verklaarden in een bericht van 1 augustus brief to Judge Lewis Kaplan that the allegations made by prosecutors claiming that SBF tampered with witnesses are based heavily on assumptions and innuendo. The prosecutors seek to have SBF’s bail revoked, but the lawyers representing SBF stated that attempts are “extremely thin.”

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said that the FTX founder’s contact with a New York Times reporter cannot be seen as an attempt to intimidate the former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, or taint the jury pool, adding that this allegation is not enough for his detention ahead of the trial. 

SBF’s contact with reporters was a “proper exercise of his rights to make fair comment on an article already in progress, for which the reporter already had alternate sources,” noted the lawyers.

Interestingly, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) sought to revoke Bankman-Fried’s bail because he made the alleged move to leak the private papers of Ellison, who was once his business ally and romantic partner, to a New York Times journalist. This was seen as an attempt to intimidate the former Alameda Research CEO, who is supposed to testify against the FTX founder in October this year. 

Aan de andere kant verklaarden de advocaten dat het de regering was die de privépapieren naar de verslaggevers had gelekt, eraan toevoegend dat het onwaarschijnlijk was dat de regering iets met het artikel te maken had.

“The language of the story itself, which discusses when the Government will begin preparing its trial witnesses and describes documents that were not provided to the reporter by Mr. Bankman-Fried, strongly indicates it was a source,” the lawyers said.

Zoals eerder gemeld door Bitnation, is de FTX crypto-uitwisseling momenteel in gesprek over het herstarten van het crypto-handelsplatform om de schuldeisers terug te betalen. De uitwisseling diende op 20 juli een rechtszaak in and named SBF, Zixiao “Gary” Wang, Caroline Ellison, and Nishad Singh as defendants. 

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