Founder of cryptocurrency platform FTX jailed for witness tampering

A federal judge in the United States has annulled this Friday the provisional freedom of Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and former CEO of the cryptographic asset exchange platform FTX, after the Prosecutor’s Office held him responsible for leaking documents that would have as their final objective pressure to witnesses, less than two months after the fraud trial against him begins in New York.

Bankman-Fried was released upon payment of 250 million dollars and with the gift that he meet a series of requirements, including staying at his parents’ home in California. Already in July, Judge Lewis Kaplan placed him on notice for the contacts he continued to maintain with the media, but his defense insisted that he should remain free, among other things, because that was the only way he could prepare with guarantees for the impending trial.

The Prosecutor’s Office estimates that Bankman-Fried sent more than a hundred emails and made more than a thousand calls to journalists in recent months, although the straw that would have broken the camel’s back would have been the leaking of parts of the diary of his ex-partner Caroline Ellison, who already he pleaded guilty to various federal crimes for his role with the company, according to NBC.

The FTX founder, who continues to defend his innocence, was arrested in the Bahamas in December last year and, within days, extradited to the United States. He is being investigated for the alleged diversion of funds from the company, which ended up declaring bankruptcy besieged by debts and after doubts about its real solvency.

Source: dpa

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