A U.S. district court has ordered FTX and Alameda Research to pay $12.7 billion to fraud victims due to their misuse of customer funds and fraudulent practices. Ian McGinley, Director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement, emphasized that this multibillion-dollar recovery is the largest recovery in CFTC history.
US Court Orders FTX and Alameda to Pay Fraud Victims $12.7 Billion in Historic CFTC Recovery
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FTX and Alameda Ordered to Pay $12.7 Billion for Fraud
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Thursday that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a consent order mandating FTX Trading Ltd. and Alameda Research LLC to pay $12.7 billion to compensate fraud victims. The announcement details:
The order requires FTX to pay $8.7 billion in restitution and $4 billion in disgorgement.
The disgorgement “will be used to further compensate victims for losses suffered as a result of the massive fraudulent scheme orchestrated by Samuel Bankman-Fried, his now-bankrupt FTX group of companies, and a core group of FTX insiders,” the CFTC added.
The court found that FTX misled its customers by claiming to safeguard their assets while actually commingling and misusing funds. Additionally, the court imposed a permanent injunction against further violations and required cooperation with ongoing litigation by the CFTC.
CFTC Division of Enforcement Director Ian McGinley noted: “Not only is this multi-billion dollar recovery for victims the largest such recovery in CFTC history, we achieved it with remarkable speed.” CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam commented:
FTX used age-old tactics to create an illusion that it was a safe and secure place to access crypto markets. But the basic regulatory tools, like governance, customer protections, and surveillance that exist to identify misconduct and ultimately prevent collapse, were simply not there.
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