Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is anticipated to testify in an try to defend himself through the Oct. 26 trial.
According to the defense attorney of the former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried, his consumer will be 1 of the witnesses referred to as by the defendant to testify in the trial of this particular person for the collapse of the FTX stock exchange.
The defense lawyer estimates that the Sam Bankman-Fried interrogation method will get up most of the trial on October 26, then it will be the prosecutor’s flip to query the former FTX CEO on October 27.
The choice to testify was produced by Sam Bankman-Fried immediately after weeks of speculation that the former FTX CEO would defend himself for his actions, major to the collapse of the when globe-major cryptocurrency exchange and leaving him dealing with expenses. of fraud and deception.
During the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, which started in early October until finally these days, the prosecutor referred to as several critical witnesses and folks near to the former CEO of FTX, in distinct the former chief engineering officer of FTX Gary Wang, former FTX chief technical officer Nishad Singh, and Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, all testified confirming that Sam Bankman-Fried immediately produced the choice to get income from FTX end users and deliberately covered up the matter.
However, Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyer argued that Gary Wang and Nishad Singh had produced inconsistent statements to the court that had been unique from these people’s testimony when they confessed to the US government, notably concerning the “allow negative” which permits Alameda to borrow income from FTX shoppers. Therefore, the defendant would like the court to summon the FBI agents who interviewed Wang and Singh to publicly confront them in court.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyer nevertheless believes the former FTX CEO acted with great intentions when he produced the selections that permitted Alameda to have a unfavorable account on FTX, as nicely as borrow users’ assets , to execute the job of marketplace maker on the floor.
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