John Ray, the new CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, filed a lawsuit against the former employees of the Hong Kong-based organization affiliated with the exchange to return $ 157.3 million.
Continuing to strive to recover customer funds since the day he took over FTX John Raythis time too Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) Hong Kong-based subsidiary of FTX controlled by of Salameda targeting former employees $157 million He filed a lawsuit to get it back.
Bloomberg According to a news shared by on September 22, in the file submitted to the court With subsidiary in Hong Kong related Michael Burgess, Kevin Nguyen, Darren Wong And Matthew Burgess with Lesley Burgess and other FTX related two companies his name was mentioned.
The court filing states that the people at the center of the allegations are responsible for FTX’s bankruptcy filing. previous 90 day period They benefited from a series of withdrawals that were deemed “avoidable under the Bankruptcy Code” throughout the year.
However, in question 157 million dollar The vast majority of cryptocurrencies on November 7 It was stated that it was taken on or after. While it is claimed that the defendants were working together, the process in question was almost a “money withdrawal race” It was described as. Shooting operations are especially FTX And FTX.US It was underlined that it was made from their calculations.
With this move, FTX’s new management team has strengthened the creditor demands, days before the court hearing of SBF. Finally, FTX lawyers, SBF’s parents He claimed that they made luxury expenses for themselves by using the stock market’s assets and transferred a large amount of money to their own accounts, and asked for the return of these money.
SBF, detained on October 3 continues to wait for the court hearing to take place.