Sam Bankman-Fried Accused by US SEC of Scamming FTX Investors

Sam Bankman-Fried Accusation by US SEC

According to the documents published on Tuesday, Bankman-Fried inappropriately utilized client cash to bail out the apparently independent trading subsidiary Alameda Research and to pay for both his personal expenses and political contributions.

Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, stated in a statement that the exchange claimed that Sam Bankman-Fried erected a house of cards on a foundation of lies while promising investors that it was among the safest structures in cryptocurrency.

Inclusion of Lines of Credit

According to the filings the SEC filed, Bankman-Fried was executing a vast, years-long scam, transferring billions of dollars of the trading network's customer deposits for his financial gain and to develop his cryptocurrency empire.

The paper also asserts that Alameda was surreptitiously awarded special status, including lines of credit and exclusion from the FTX exchange's liquidation processes, allowing it to access client cash.

Assertions by SBF

The SEC petition claimed that Bankman-Fried intentionally or negligently used methods, plans, or artifices to mislead while continuing to guarantee investors of excellent governance and a robust financial position when markets fell. Bankman-Fried has previously asserted that he did not deliberately commingle customer monies.

Bankman-Fried instructed Alameda to rely on its line of credit from FTX in May 2022 as cryptocurrency prices fell. As a result, Alameda received billions of dollars from FTX customers, which it then used to pay off its third-party loan commitments, according to the SEC filing.