FTX Trading Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against Ryan Salame, former head of FTX Digital Markets, seeking the recovery of $98.8 million allegedly misappropriated in the lead-up to the exchange's collapse. Accusations against Salame include using customer funds to finance a lavish lifestyle and political contributions. He was sentenced to 7.5 years (90 months) in prison for his role in the FTX scandal.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a consent order of permanent injunction and equitable relief against FTX Trading Ltd. and Alameda Research LLC. The court ordered the now-bankrupt entities to pay a staggering $12.7 billion in monetary relief to compensate customers and victims of one of the largest frauds in the digital asset space.
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) Wang, the former Chief Technology Officer of FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX), for their roles in fraudulent FTX crypt scheme co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Wang. Ellison and Wang pleaded guilty to the criminal charges and cooperate with the authorities.
We didn't have US crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX Group on our radar. This crypto brokerage scheme, controlled via offshore entities in Antigua and Barbuda or the Bahamas, recently acquired CySEC-regulated investment firm K-DNA Financial Services Ltd, led by Martha Lambrianou. In March 2022, FTX Group announced the establishment of FTX Europe AG, Switzerland, as a holding company. FTX Group came to our attention via a BaFin warning against the Investorix broker scam mentioning the K-DNA Financial Services Ltd. We would like to learn more!