FTX suggests Sam Bankman-Fried transferred belongings to Bahamas authorities custody after chapter: submitting

FTX in a bombshell emergency court docket submitting Thursday mentioned proof suggests Bahamian regulators directed former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to achieve “unauthorized entry” to FTX techniques to acquire digital belongings belonging to the corporate after it had filed for chapter safety.

The submitting mentioned that Bankman-Fried transferred these belongings to the custody of the Bahamian authorities. It cites an interview printed by Vox on Wednesday the place Bankman-Fried expresses severe disdain for regulators.

“F— regulators,” he mentioned within the interview. “They make all the pieces worse. They do not defend clients in any respect.”

“You understand what was perhaps my greatest single f—-p?” he requested. “Chapter 11.”

The accusations had been made by FTX in a movement in america Chapter Court docket in Delaware. In that movement, FTX mentioned the alleged conduct places “in severe query” a request by Bahamian regulators for recognition as liquidators within the chapter.

“[I]n reference to investigating a hack on Sunday, November 13, Mr. Bankman-Fried and [FTX co-founder Gary] Wang, acknowledged in recorded and verified texts that “Bahamas regulators” instructed that sure post-petition transfers of Debtor belongings be made by Mr. Wang and Mr. Bankman-Fried (who the Debtors perceive had been each successfully within the custody of Bahamas authorities) and that such belongings had been “custodied on FireBlocks below management of Bahamian gov’t,” the submitting mentioned.

“The Debtors thus have credible proof that the Bahamian authorities is chargeable for directing unauthorized entry to the Debtors’ techniques for the aim of acquiring digital belongings of the Debtors—that occurred after the graduation of those circumstances. The appointment of the JPLs and recognition of the Chapter 15 Case are thus in severe query,” the submitting continued.

Sam Bankman-Fried was not instantly accessible to remark. The regulation corporations representing FTX, Landis Rath & Cobb and Sullivan & Cromwell, didn’t reply to a request for remark. CNBC didn’t instantly obtain a response to an e-mail to the Securities Fee of the Bahamas.