FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Is Said to Face Market Manipulation Inquiry

Dec 08,2022
KingData News: Federal prosecutors are investigating whether FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, manipulated the market for two cryptocurrencies this past spring, leading to their collapse and creating a domino effect that eventually caused the implosion of his own cryptocurrency exchange last month, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan are examining the possibility that Mr. Bankman-Fried steered the prices of two interlinked currencies, TerraUSD and Luna, to benefit the entities he controlled, including FTX and Alameda Research, a hedge fund he co-founded and owned, the people said. The investigation is in its early stages, and it is not clear whether prosecutors have determined any wrongdoing by Mr. Bankman-Fried, or when they began looking at the TerraUSD and Luna trades.
A financial document disclosed in the media indicates that SBF's Alameda Research has a capital debt situation, with nearly half of its holdings related to FTT and Solana. On November 6, 2022, CZ stated that due to recent revelations, Binance will sell all FTT on its books. This indicator broadcasts updates on FTX-related events.
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