Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, is formally charged with fraud and money laundering in the US.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the US filed some charges against the founder of FTX today.
According to the information learned today, prosecutors in the United States have also been accused of Sam Bankman-Fried in total. on eight different charges exists. Among them defrauding customers and creditors, planning money laundering and defrauding the USA such crimes.
Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the USA the other day.
The US Treasury Department is demanding the seizure of property that Bankman-Fried may have acquired through his alleged crimes.
Bankman-Fried has collaborated with other individuals to “defraud FTX customers by misusing customers’ money, making new investments and paying Alameda Research’s expenses and debts.”