FTX Recovers Over $5 Billion of Assets

FTX Recovers Over $5 Billion of Assets

  • According to a counsel representing FTX, the assets of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange of over $5 billion (£4.1 billion) is recovered.
  • Prosecutors have charged FTX’s former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried with instigating an “epic” scam that might have cost investors, consumers, and lenders billions of dollars.
  • Attorney stated that the recovered funds do not include assets confiscated by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, where FTX was registered and where Bankman-Fried was staying at the time of his arrest.
  • The formerly $32 billion company FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11. An estimated $8 billion in client funds went missing.