Bankman-Fried fick över $2B från Alameda Research

  • Bankman-Fried erkände sig oskyldig till 12 brottsanklagelser.
  • De $3,2 miljarder som lånats ut till chefer inkluderar inte de $240 miljoner som spenderats på påkostade förvärv och donationer.

Ett påstående släppte on Wednesday by the new management of FTX claims that the company’s former CEO and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, received payments and loans totaling $2.2 billion, primarily from Alameda Research, the hedge fund he headed that suffered significant losses on poor investments before misusing client deposits from FTX accounts to try to pay those losses.

Förutom Bankman-Fried fick andra FTX-chefer betalningar genom Alameda, inklusive den tidigare ingenjörschefen Nishad Singh, som fick $587 miljoner. Uppgifter visar att medgrundaren Gary Wang fick $246 miljoner, medan tidigare co-VD Ryan Salame fick $87 miljoner.

As per the records, former Alameda co-CEO John Samuel Trabucco received $25 million. Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend and former CEO of Alameda, Caroline Ellison, seemed more cautious, taking only $6 million in loans and payments.

The news would come as a heavy blow to Bankan-Fried’s legal team, which has so far stood firm on the 30-year-old’s stance of innocence. The new findings also support earlier statements made by Caroline Ellison. The former Alameda executive told a judge that Alameda secretly loaned corporate executives billions of dollars. The documents, no doubt, give prosecutors a strong case against Bankman-Fried. So far, Bankman-Fried has been charged with financial crimes such as money laundering and bankbedrägerier

 

Lawrence Weriji
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