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Bahamian Government Officials Allegedly Asked SBF to Mint Millions of Dollars in New Tokens Amid the FTX Collapse – Bitcoin News

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On Monday, courtroom paperwork from attorneys concerned with the FTX Buying and selling LTD Chapter 11 chapter case allege that the federal government of The Bahamas requested the disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) to mint new crypto tokens. The attorneys detailed that it was a “request for dwell, dynamic entry that will be supplied instantly to the federal government of the Bahamas and to Messrs.”

Authorities of Bahamas Accused of Getting Particular Therapy From Disgraced FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried

Following Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) arrest in The Bahamas, the U.S. Securities and Change Fee (SEC) charged SBF with fraud over the FTX collapse. Moreover, studies present that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) prosecutor’s workplace and SDNY lawyer Damian Williams have charged SBF with crimes as nicely.

“The Manhattan U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace on Tuesday unsealed an eight-count indictment charging disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with a multi-year scheme to siphon cash out of the now-collapsed crypto trade,” law360.com courtroom reporter Rachel Scharf disclosed on Tuesday. Moreover, courtroom paperwork from the FTX Chapter 11 chapter case point out that the joint provisional liquidators of FTX Digital Markets filed a movement to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of FTX Property Holdings LTD.

Attorneys have additionally accused the federal government of The Bahamas of asking SBF to mint new digital tokens price hundreds of thousands of U.S. {dollars}. The tokens had been allegedly given to Bahamian officers, FTX’s authorized workforce mentioned. FTX’s new CEO John J. Ray III and his workforce observed that new tokens had been being issued and suspected that SBF and FTX co-founder Gary Wang had been the executives who labored on orders stemming from Bahamian officers. The information follows the odd relationship FTX officers like trade boss Ryan Salame had with vertical farming companies.

Ryan Salame and Bahamian prime minister (PM) Philip Davis visited Ohio to tour a enterprise referred to as 80 Acres Farms in Jan. 2022. Moreover, throughout his interview with Mario Nawfal’s Twitter Areas crew, FTX co-founder SBF admitted that withdrawals to Bahamian residents befell earlier than FTX totally collapsed, and probably on two events. SBF additionally described giving Bahamian withdrawals the inexperienced gentle in his two-part interview with Tiffany Fong (here and here). FTX’s American lawyer detailed this week that SBF negotiated with the Bahamian authorities and $100 million a day in withdrawals was allegedly permitted by SBF.

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Discussing the minting of latest crypto tokens for the Bahamian authorities, the attorneys declare SBF and Gary Wang labored with the officers very intently earlier than the chapter submitting on Nov. 11, 2022. “It’s a request for dwell, dynamic entry that will be supplied instantly to the federal government of the Bahamas and to Messrs. Samuel Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang, who’re positioned within the Bahamas and dealing intently with Bahamian officers,” the FTX attorneys mentioned within the courtroom submitting.

After the allegations, the Securities Commission of The Bahamas issued an announcement and wholeheartedly denied FTX CEO John Ray’s allegations revealed within the courtroom filings. The Bahamas regulator mentioned the accusations are meant “to create a misunderstanding of communications between Mr. Bankman-Fried and the Fee.”

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the Information Lead at Bitcoin.com Information and a monetary tech journalist dwelling in Florida. Redman has been an energetic member of the cryptocurrency neighborhood since 2011. He has a ardour for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized purposes. Since September 2015, Redman has written greater than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com Information concerning the disruptive protocols rising at this time.




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