- The federal prosecutors in Manhattan have launched an investigation into Sam Bankman-Fried.
- The prosecutors seek to know whether Bankman-Fried deliberately inflated the price of two cryptos.
- The SEC and federal prosecutors are also investigating whether FTX’s transfer of consumer money to Alameda was illegal.
The federal prosecutors in Manhattan have launched an investigation into whether Sam Bankman-Fried deliberately inflated the price of two cryptos this spring, causing their demise and setting off a chain reaction that led to the collapse of his own crypto exchange last month.
The crypto media believes there was a likelihood that Bankman-Fried manipulated the prices of two interconnected currencies, TerraUSD and Luna, to benefit his firms; FTX and Alameda Research.
Furthermore, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and federal prosecutors are investigating whether FTX’s consumer money transfer to Alameda was illegal. In addition, FTX is being looked at for possibly breaking U.S. money-laundering rules, which demand that money-transfer companies identify their clients and report any potentially unlawful conduct to law enforcement.
In related news, the new management at the FTX has hired a team of forensic investigators from advisory firm AlixPartners that will assist in locating the billions of dollars that have vanished from the defunct Bitcoin exchange.
T ...
The post FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to Face Market Manipulation Inquiry appeared first on Coin Edition.