FTX abre processo contra SBF e outros executivos: detalhes
- O co-fundador da FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, junto com outros executivos foram processados pela bolsa de criptomoedas.
- The lawsuit filed on July 20 named SBF, Zixiao “Gary” Wang, Caroline Ellison, and Nishad Singh as defendants.
- A denúncia acrescenta que alguns funcionários das empresas falidas tinham acesso a poder ilimitado.
- Os funcionários poderosos contratavam e demitiam pessoas à vontade e tinham acesso a transações em moeda fiduciária e cripto.
A falida exchange cripto FTX processou seu fundador e ex-CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, também conhecido como SBF no espaço cripto, junto com outros executivos. Além disso, ex-executivos de uma trading também fundada pela SBF, a Alameda Research, incluindo Caroline Ellison, foram processados. Enquanto isso, o ex-bilhão cripto está enfrentando várias acusações nos Estados Unidos, desde cometer fraude até enganar investidores.
Conforme um reclamação filed on July 20 in a United States Bankruptcy Court, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, FTX co-founder Zixiao “Gary” Wang, former engineering director at the exchange Nishad Singh, and Bankman-Fried have been named as defendants. This adds to the numerous cases that the executives have been facing.
According to the complaint, the FTX and Alameda executives breached their fiduciary duties by allegedly mismanaging the funds that their users entrusted to them on a “continuous basis to finance luxury condominiums, political and ‘charitable’ contributions, speculative investments, and other pet projects.”
The legal brief also adds that the prominent personalities in the crypto space used their control over FTX and Alameda to commit “one of the largest financial frauds in history.” The complaint adds that a few employees at the bankrupt firms had access to limitless power, which allowed them to oversee transactions involving digital assets and fiat currencies.
Moreover, these powerful employees also had the power to hire and fire employees with “no effective oversight” on how they exercised their powers. Interestingly, FTX also noted in the complaint that SBF and others issued more than $725 million worth of equity to themselves, “without [debtors] receiving any value in exchange.”
FTX claims that on Jan. 24, 2022, SBF transferred close to $10 million to his father’s account on FTX US in the form of a “gift.” Moreover, his father also made six transfers totaling $6.75 million to his personal accounts at Morgan Stanley and TD Ameritrade, the lawsuit claims.
“In or around July 2019, Bankman-Fried directed one or more of his co-conspirators or individuals working at their behest to modify the software to permit Alameda to maintain a negative balance in its account on the exchange.”
Conforme relatado anteriormente pela Bitnation, a bolsa de criptomoedas falida também entrou com outro processo contra os executivos em maio deste ano, com o objetivo de recuperar $220 milhões que gastaram para adquirir a plataforma de negociação de ações Embed. O processo alega que os ex-executivos falharam em realizar qualquer diligência antes de comprar a plataforma de software altamente ineficaz e cheia de bugs.
Jornalista cripto com mais de 3 anos de experiência em DeFi, NFT, metaverso, etc. Parth trabalhou com grandes meios de comunicação no mundo cripto e financeiro e ganhou experiência e conhecimento em cultura criptográfica depois de sobreviver a mercados de baixa e alta ao longo dos anos.
