SEC Skeptis terhadap Peran Coinbase dalam Proses Kebangkrutan Perusahaan Peminjam Kripto Celsius
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is opposed to Coinbase‘s current involvement in Celsius’ bankruptcy plan. Celsius, a crypto lender, originally filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 after its native asset plummeted by over 99% and it was unable to fulfill customer withdrawals. The bankrupt lenders most recent Chapter 11 plan entails using Coinbase as an agent to distribute crypto back to its former customers. The SEC, however, submitted a filing last week raising concerns about that choice of distribution agent. Argue the regulators lawyers, The SEC sued Coinbase in June, accusing the company of operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker and clearing agency. On Monday, Paul Grewal, Coinbase‘s chief legal officer, mempertanyakan the regulator’s opposition to his company‘s involvement in Celsius’ bankruptcy plan. Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and Roni Cohen-Pavon, the companys former chief revenue officer, were both arrested in July. The former executives were slapped with a variety of criminal and civil charges from the SEC, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The FTC specifically accused Mashinsky of “tricking consumers into transferring cryptocurrency onto the platform by falsely promising that deposits would be safe and always available.”