- In 2019, Binance acquired a 20% stake within the collapse of FTX in a take care of Sam Bankman-Fried
- In 2021, Binance and FTX agreed to a deal that allowed FTX to purchase again a $1.76 billion stake in FTT, BNB, and BUSD.
- The switch was made by Alameda Analysis, which was bancrupt on the time and couldn’t afford the transaction
FTX has filed a lawsuit towards Binance and its co-founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao to get better $1.76 billion for an alleged fraudulent switch.
The November 10 submitting acknowledged that FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried fraudulently transferred “a minimum of $1.76 billion” to Binance and Binance managers in July 2021.
Bankman-Fried was sentenced in March to 25 years in jail for defrauding clients.
In accordance with the submitting, the switch was a part of a buyback settlement between Binance and FTX and shouldn’t have occurred. The submitting claims that in November 2019, Binance acquired a 20% stake in FTX with a couple of million in Binance's BNB token in a take care of Bankman-Fried.
Round February 2020, Binance acquired a further 18.4% in WRS, the US-based umbrella firm of Bankman-Fried. Nevertheless, in July 2021, the 2 events agreed to a deal whereby FTX would purchase again Binance and all of its managers' stakes in FTX and WRS.
This amounted to roughly $1.76 billion in FTT token FTX, BNB and BUSD (Binance stablecoin) funded by FTX sister firm Alameda Analysis.
He couldn't afford the transaction
In accordance with the submitting, the switch was fraudulent as a result of Alameda was bancrupt on the time and couldn’t afford the transaction. In accordance with testimony from Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Analysis, Alameda spent roughly “$1 billion of FTX Buying and selling's capital raised from depositors to fund the buyback.”
In September, Ellison was sentenced to 24 months in jail for her position within the collapse of FTX.
After the buyback on November 6, 2022, Zhao is claimed to have “despatched a collection of false, deceptive and misleading tweets maliciously calculated to destroy his rival FTX, whatever the hurt that FTX's clients and collectors would undergo.” .”
Because of this, “Zhao's faux tweets triggered a predictable avalanche of withdrawals on FTX — a rumored assault on the financial institution that Zhao knew would trigger FTX to break down,” the submitting mentioned.
