Domare bestämmer datum för rättegången mot tidigare Celsius vd:s rättegång
- Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky will face trial for allegedly defrauding the company’s investors.
- Mashinsky säkrade en borgen på $40 miljoner men möter rese- och ekonomiska restriktioner.
- Rättegången mot den tidigare FTX-vd:n Sam Bankman-Fried inleddes på tisdagen med val av jury i en domstol på Manhattan.
När den straffrättsliga rättegången mot FTX-grundaren Sam Bankman-Fried inleds, har en domstol i New York meddelat datumet för ännu ett högprofilerat fall som involverar en kryptochef. Domare John Koeltl meddelade i en utfrågning i USA:s distriktsdomstol för södra distriktet i New York på tisdagen att rättegången mot den tidigare Celsius Network-chefen Alex Mashinsky kommer att starta den 17 september 2024.
De meddelande noterade att tre förundersökningskonferenser kommer att äga rum i mars, juli och september. Mashinsky kommer att förbli obegränsad av en borgen på $40 miljoner under rättegången. Detta trots mycket betydande restriktioner för hans förmåga att resa och vissa finansiella transaktioner.
Mashinsky was arrested in July for allegedly defrauding investors of billions of dollars, and Tuesday’s news marked one of the new developments in his case. In their Tuesday testimony before the judge, Mashinsky’s defense attorneys noted that one of their arguments would be that cryptocurrencies are not securities, a point of legal debate in the United States.
Mashinsky’s defense could find it difficult to defend their client if Roni Cohen-Pavon, the former chief revenue officer of Celsius, testifies against him as reported. Cohen-Pavon entered a plea in September for four criminal offenses. He remains free on bail until his hearing in December.
Celsius Network var ett av de många kryptoföretag som gick i konkurs 2022. Mashinsky sade upp sig as the company’s CEO in September 2022, months after Celsius filed for bankruptcy. However, several US regulators, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, all announced cases against Mashinsky.
Elsewhere, the trial for former FTX CEO Bankman-Fried resumed on Tuesday, October 3. Jury selection for the case got underway in a federal court in Manhattan. Bankman-Fried’s trial will no doubt attract massive media coverage owing to his status within and outside the crypto world.
The 31-year-old mingled with some of the higher powers in Washington at the height of his fame and secured the services of Hollywood’s biggest name to represent his company, FTX. However, FTX suffered a dramatic collapse in late 2022. The company, which was once valued at $32 billion, filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022. Bankman-Fried was later charged with multiple counts of fraud in relation to the collapse.
Lewis Kaplan, a veteran federal judge, will preside over the proceedings, and the trial is anticipated to last roughly six weeks. Interestingly, several former FTX executives are all expected to testify against Bankman-Fried at the trial, including Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend, Caroline Ellison.
Jag har täckt några spännande historier under min karriär som journalist och tycker att blockchain-relaterade historier är väldigt spännande. Jag tror att Web3 kommer att förändra världen och vill att alla ska vara en del av den.
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