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In response to the SEC’s criticism, since a minimum of Could 2019, FTX, based mostly in The Bahamas, raised greater than $1.8 billion from fairness buyers, together with roughly $1.1 billion from roughly 90 U.S.-based buyers. In his representations to buyers, Bankman-Fried promoted FTX as a protected, accountable crypto asset buying and selling platform, particularly touting FTX’s refined, automated danger measures to guard buyer belongings.
The criticism alleges that, in actuality, Bankman-Fried orchestrated a years-long fraud to hide from FTX’s buyers (1) the undisclosed diversion of FTX prospects’ funds to Alameda Analysis LLC, his privately-held crypto hedge fund; (2) the undisclosed particular remedy afforded to Alameda on the FTX platform, together with offering Alameda with a nearly limitless “line of credit score” funded by the platform’s prospects and exempting Alameda from sure key FTX danger mitigation measures; and (3) undisclosed danger stemming from FTX’s publicity to Alameda’s important holdings of overvalued, illiquid belongings akin to FTX-affiliated tokens.
The criticism additional alleges that Bankman-Fried used commingled FTX prospects’ funds at Alameda to make undisclosed enterprise investments, lavish actual property purchases, and huge political donations.
