The Bahamas desires the US authorities to present again 35 totally different properties which might be valued at greater than $256 million that have been bought by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency change FTX earlier than it filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety final month.
Attorneys representing the Bahamian authorities advised a federal chapter decide in Delaware that Bankman-Fried and Ryan Salame, who was his co-CEO on the time, amassed a large actual property portfolio all through New Windfall island within the Bahamas.
The Bahamas representatives advised the decide that it will be unlawful beneath Bahamian legislation to permit US chapter proceedings to manage the properties, in response to CNBC.
The Bahamian authorities desires the decide to dismiss chapter proceedings in opposition to an FTX subsidiary that's listed because the proprietor of the properties.
“Bahamian legislation doesn't permit recognition of a international insolvency continuing for a Bahamian firm,” the attorneys for the island nation advised the decide.
However Bankman-Fried’s successor as CEO, John Ray, who was put in within the function to supervise the corporate’s chapter restructuring, will doubtless resist any efforts by the Bahamian authorities to realize management over the property.
Ray advised the Home Monetary Providers Committee on Tuesday that he's searching for to get better greater than $7 billion in funds that could possibly be returned to FTX traders — although the method is more likely to take weeks, if not months.
“On the finish of the day, we're not going to have the ability to get better all of the losses right here,” Ray stated on Tuesday.
“There was cash spent that we are going to by no means get again.”
Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities on Monday night on the request of the US authorities. He's being held at a jail within the Bahamian capital of Nassau.
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed the indictment in opposition to Bankman-Fried, who faces costs of wire fraud, securities fraud and cash laundering.
They allege that Bankman-Fried devised “a scheme and artifice to defraud” FTX’s prospects and traders starting in 2019.
He diverted their cash to cowl bills, money owed and dangerous trades at his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Analysis, and to make lavish actual property purchases and enormous political donations, prosecutors stated in a 13-page indictment.
If convicted, he faces a most of greater than 100 years in federal jail.
Bankman-Fried has stated he'll battle extradition to the US, although that might simply delay the method by a number of weeks, in response to authorized consultants.
Underneath Bankman-Fried’s watch, FTX spent lavishly on dear actual property for each co-CEOs and different high executives on the firm.
Bankman-Fried’s dad and mom — Stanford College legislation professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried — are listed because the house owners of a $16 million luxurious property that they used as a “trip dwelling.”
A spokesperson for the couple stated they began the method of returning the property to FTX earlier than the corporate filed for chapter.
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