Fundador da FTX nega acusações de adulteração de testemunhas: detalhes
- 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.”
- Os advogados afirmam que o governo vazou os papéis privados pertencentes a Caroline Ellison e não à SBF.
- Ellison deve testemunhar no caso de falência da FTX em outubro deste ano.
O fundador da falida exchange cripto FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, também conhecido como SBF no espaço cripto, negou as acusações de adulteração de testemunhas de acordo com uma nova reviravolta nos eventos. O ex-bilionário cripto procura escapar da prisão. Os advogados que representam o empresário cripto disseram que a SBF não conversou com repórteres do New York Times para influenciar ou intimidar testemunhas.
Os advogados que representam o fundador e ex-CEO da FTX declararam em 1º de agosto carta 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.
Por outro lado, os advogados afirmaram que foi o governo que vazou os papéis privados para os repórteres, acrescentando que era implausível que o governo tivesse algo a ver com o artigo.
“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.
Conforme relatado anteriormente pela Bitnation, a exchange cripto FTX está atualmente em negociações sobre reiniciar a plataforma de negociação cripto para reembolsar os credores. a troca entrou com uma ação em 20 de julho and named SBF, Zixiao “Gary” Wang, Caroline Ellison, and Nishad Singh as defendants.
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.
