Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried faces new charges in multi-billion dollar fraud case – Bitcoin News

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried faces new charges in multi-billion dollar fraud case – Bitcoin News

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced co-founder of FTX, faces a further four charges after a new indictment was unsealed on Wednesday. The charges include operating an unlicensed money transmission business and conspiring to commit bank fraud.

SBF gets 4 new charges added to the indictment

The former CEO of FTX was originally indicted 72 days ago by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, and prosecutors charged the crypto exchange’s co-founder with eight different offenses. The charges include conspiracy to commit fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit goods fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

A new indictment was quashed by the court on 22 February 2023, adding four new charges to SBF’s case. The charges include operating an unlicensed money transmitter and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. “By taking advantage of the trust FTX customers placed in him and his exchange, Bankman-Fried stole FTX customer deposits and used billions of dollars in stolen funds for a variety of purposes,” the new indictment states.

The newly revised indictment named no other defendants, and it alleges that SBF “corrupted the operations of the cryptocurrency companies he founded and controlled – including FTX.com and Alameda Research.” The revised indictment further adds that SBF “perpetrated this multi-billion dollar fraud through a series of systems and arrangements that allowed him, through Alameda, to access and steal FTX customer deposits without detection.”

In addition to running unlicensed money transfer operations and bank fraud, SBF is accused of defrauding customers in connection with the purchase and sale of derivatives. Furthermore, SBF faces a charge of making illegal political contributions and defrauding the Federal Election Commission.

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What impact do you think these new charges will have on SBF’s case? Let us know what you think about this topic in the comments section below.

Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news editor at Bitcoin.com News and a financial technology journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open source and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.




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