The new control refers to the cryptocurrency of at least US $ 40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese government officials in 2021 to re -get the frozen Chinese law enforcement department frozenAccounts provide financial support for more trading activities.
(New York Composite Electric) According to the indictment published by the Federal Prosecutor on Tuesday (March 28), FTX co -founder of the Cryptocurrency Exchange FTX was accused of bribery with Chinese officials 40 million US dollars (about 53.14 millionNew Yuan) cryptocurrency to thaw assets related to his cryptocurrency business.
In the revised indictment submitted by the Federal Prosecutor on the same day, the newly controlled new control refers to Sam Bankman-Fric that violated the anti-bribery clauses in the Overseas Corruption Law.The new control refers to that in 2021 authorized to bribe with a cryptocurrency of at least $ 40 million to one or more Chinese government officials to re -obtain an account frozen by the Chinese law enforcement department to provide financial support for more transaction activities.
The accounts holding more than $ 1 billion in cryptocurrencies are related to Freud's cryptocurrency investment company Alameda Research.Alameda is a Hong Kong trading company related to FTX.The two companies once estimated to operate $ 32 billion in virtual trading business.
The latest prosecution pointed out that China's law enforcement officials frozen Alameda's two largest cryptocurrency exchanges in China in 2021.Freed and the person who executed his instructions attempted to thaw these accounts, including recruiting lawyers to lobby in China, and trying to transfer cryptocurrencies to fraud accounts opened on the China Stock Exchange.
The prosecution said that after Freud and his associates have "tried countless methods" for several months, they instructed the bribery of a cryptocurrency form from the main transaction account of Alameta to a private wallet to promote the account to thaw.However, the account still did not thaw.
31 -year -old Fried has faced several fraud allegations due to FTX closure, including conspiracy, telecommunications fraud, plotting money laundering, and violation of the campaign financial law.Fried is now facing 13 criminal charges.He has been charged with eight fraud charges, including suspected of transferring billions of dollars from the currently closed FTX to Alameta and for personal expenses.The five of them can be sentenced to 20 years in prison for each of them, and he does not plead guilty of eight control.The other five crimes have not been tried.
Friedding, who accepted the newly controlled communication, faced the regional judge Caplan in the Federal Court of Manhattan, the southern area of New York.According to a person familiar with the matter, he did not plan to plead guilty.Fried's lawyer did not respond to Bloomberg reporters' inquiries.
Gary Wang Zixiao, Caroline Ellison, and Nishad Singh have confession and cooperate with the government.
Fried was a great gold master of Democratic politicians. He is currently under house arrest of $ 250 million in bail in the residence of his parents in California.He will be tried in October.He was arrested in Bahamas on December 12 last year and later extradited back to the United States to face the control.
