Ex-CEO de Sam Bankman-Fried testemunha que cometeu fraude com ele
Notícias do Bitcoin Ethereum Caroline Ellison, a tech executive and one-time girlfriend of former FTX cryptocurrency exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, testified on Tuesday that she participated in a fraud scheme alongside the embattled executive. Ms Ellison is the CEO of Alameda Research, a hedge fund that operated alongside FTX. She is one of three former members of Mr Bankman-Fried‘s inner circle who have pleaded guilty to fraud charges and who have agreed to cooperate with the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office case against the crypto mogul, according to Reuters. Ms Ellison told the court that “Alameda took several billion dollars of money from FTX customers and used it for our own investments and to repay debts that we had.” She claimed Mr Bankman-Fried directed her company to take approximately $10bn in FTX customer money to repay loans, and to share misleading Alameda balance sheets with the companys lenders to make its financial position appear less risky. Ms Ellison was asked why FTX ran out of money in November 2022, an event which caused widespread panic among crypto-traders who used the company to hold their assets. She explained that “Alameda had taken it to make our own investments and to repay our lenders.” She continued her testimony, telling the