Current enactment for FTX sued the company’s erstwhile compliance officer, Daniel Friedberg, arsenic seen successful a tribunal filing dated June 27.
Friedberg allegedly breached duties
The filing broadly alleges that Friedberg breached his fiduciary duties and engaged successful misconduct. Friedberg antecedently served arsenic Chief Compliance Officer astatine FTX, General Counsel astatine Alameda Research, and successful different interior and outer positions.
Critically, FTX alleged that Friedberg caused the discarded of institution assets and helped erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and different executives divert funds.
FTX specifically said that Friedberg created an entity called North Dimension to commingle and misappropriate funds. It besides alleged that, erstwhile a planned IPO required an audit, Friedberg created a “sham” intercompany statement to fell transfers.
Furthermore, Friedberg was accused of “whitewashing” oregon covering up whistleblower complaints that acrophobic the company’s misuse and commingling of funds. Friedberg allegedly fired and paid disconnected 1 whistleblower with a severance package.
Plus, Friedberg besides helped transportation retired billions of dollars of transfers to FTX executives and portrayed those transfers arsenic institution loans. In fact, the expected loans were not repaid and could not person been repaid, according to the filing.
In 1 section, FTX alleged that the aboriginal institution was “insolvent astatine each applicable times” and was “built connected a location of cards” from the clip of its creation. FTX asserted that Friedberg supported a strategy that defrauded and hindered customers.
FTX seeks fines and damages
FTX, nether its existent management, present seeks assorted fines, damages, and disgorgements from Friedberg. It has besides asked for definite spot to beryllium returned with interest. The applicable amounts volition beryllium determined successful a aboriginal trial.
FTX filed the charges arsenic portion of the firm’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings successful the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Other caller reports suggest that FTX is attempting to restart operations nether its existent leadership. The institution owes its users $8.7 cardinal — the bulk of which has been recovered contempt being missing oregon misappropriated successful the past.
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