BREAKING NEWS: Disgraced FTX founder allegedly directed $40M bribe to Chinese officials
has been charged Tuesday with a new count from federal prosecutors alleging he directed a $40 million cryptocurrency bribe to one or more Chinese government officials to unfreeze assets held there through Alameda Research, an affiliated crypto trading hedge fund.
The new indictment from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York now brings the total charges against the failed ex-CEO of the"In or about 2021, Samuel Bankman-Fried, a/k/a/ "SBF," the defendant, authorized and directed a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials," the indictment reads.
"Bankman-Fried and others sought to regain access to the assets to fund additional Alameda trading activity, in order to assist Bankman-Fried and Alameda in obtaining and retaining business," it added. Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the court in New York, on Jan. 3, 2023. The former CEO of FTX and Alameda was released on $250M bail.U.S. attorney for SDNY Damian Williams previously told FOX Business that "We are hard at work and will remain so until justice is done.
The indictment says after the Alameda accounts were frozen by Chinese authorities "as part of an ongoing investigation of a particular Alameda trading counterparty," Bankman-Fried and others operating at his discretion tried numerous methods to unfreeze the accounts and regain access to the cryptocurrency.
These included "retaining attorneys to lobby or otherwise advocate in China for Alameda’s funds to be unfrozen; communicating with the Chinese Exchanges; and opening new accounts on the Chinese Exchanges using the personal identifying information of several individuals affiliated with FTX or Alameda and attempting to transfer the cryptocurrency from the frozen Accounts to the Fraudulent Accounts in an effort to circumvent the Chinese authorities’ freeze orders," the indictment alleges.
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