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FTX has said it had recovered over $5 billion in crypto, cash and liquid securities, but that significant shortfalls remained at both its international and U.S. crypto exchanges.
FTX filed for bankruptcy in November after a run on customer deposits exposed an $8 billion hole in its accounts.
The $5 billion recovered does not include assets seized by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, where Sam Bankman-Fried was located, said Andy Dietderich, an attorney for FTX.
FTX’s Bahamas unit’s digital assets were transferred to digital wallets under the exclusive control of the commission in November soon after the company and its hedge fund Alameda Research and dozens of affiliates filed for U.S. bankruptcy.
Sam Bankman-Fried, currently sitting in a Bahamian jail, has been accused by the US securities regulator of orchestrating a years-long fraud that diverted billions in customer funds from opaque and offshore exchange FTX to a now-bankrupt trading empire.
Hailed as next Warren Buffett, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas following the bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency exchange, whose dramatic collapse sent its more than a million investors and their billions of dollars down a sinkhole. Here's a timeline of events
Bankman-Fried, who hasn’t been charged with any crimes, has denied trying to perpetrate a fraud, though he has owned up to grievous managerial errors at FTX.
In a statement late on Friday, the panel said it would hear from newly appointed FTX CEO John Ray and from Bankman-Fried, FTX's founder and former CEO, on Tuesday.
Sorkin says Bankman-Fried should listen to his lawyers and stop talking immediately. Anyone who’s watched Law & Order knows that.
The unit, which is registered with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a derivatives exchange, was a cornerstone of Bankman-Fried’s efforts in Washington.
“It’s going to be more than one word. I’m making it up as I go,” FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried said and when asked if he was planning to continue posting cryptic tweets, he said, “Something like that.”
Bahamas-based FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday after a rush of customer withdrawals earlier this week.
The move comes days after larger rival Binance walked away from a proposed acquisition and left it scrambling to raise about $9.4 billion from investors and rivals.