Infamous crypto entrepreneur SBF denies all fraud allegations

On Oct 29, 2023

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 22: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan Federal Court after his arraignment and bail hearings on December 22, 2022 in New York City. Bankman-Fried, who was indicted on December 9th and arrested 3 days later by Bahamas law enforcement at the request of U.S. prosecutors, consented to extradition to the U.S. where he is facing eight criminal counts of fraud, conspiracy and money-laundering offenses which includes making illegal political contributions. He is potentially facing life in prison if convicted. He was released on $250 million bond with the bail package requiring him to stay with his parents in California. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

In the court, SBF said that he never defrauded anyone and all the allegations were baseless.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is co-founder & former CEO of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX which collapsed badly in Nov 2022 following a report by the Coindesk media over the company’s forged financial position. Allegedly SBF misused FTX customers’ funds for personal savings & to fund for his another crypto hedge firm Alameda Research.

In the latest court trial, SBF denied all the fraud allegations said that he never defrauded anyone, and claimed that his mistake was only not having a dedicated risk management team.

On the Alameda Research & FTX relationship, SBF said that Alameda was not taking funds from FTX blindly, instead that was part of customers’ marginal trading activities

He also appreciated the role of the Alameda firm in revenue generation and said that his Crypto hedge firm generated billions of dollars, as the company already started buying Solana (Sol) coins at $0.2 which later surged to $260.

SBF responded in court and denied defrauding anyone and taking customer funds. He said the biggest mistake was not having a dedicated risk management team; he said Alameda allowed borrowing money from the FTX exchange, basically from margin traders. He claimed that Alameda has…
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SBF told the court that he intended to sell FTX to top crypto exchange Binance during the initial days of the struggle but he failed to crack the deal.

In short, SBF directly distanced himself from all the fraud allegations, while little-known FTX co-founder Gary Wang & former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison told the court that SBF misused its power to transfer an unlimited amount of funds from FTX to Alameda. Ellison also confirmed that SBF ordered her to present Alameda’s financial position wrongly despite the company’s bad situation.

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