A new report by the Wall Street Journal claimed that the disgraced founder and former CEO of FTX took over 70% of the funds gathered from a funding round in October last year.
He used the Binance buyback deal to justify his actions.
- CryptoPotato reported the fundraising round in October 2021 when FTX closed a $420.69 million Series B-1, bringing its total valuation to $25 billion at the time. Aside from the unusual and meme amount, the round saw the participation of exactly 69 investors.
- Sam Bankman-Fried told investors back then that the funds will be primarily used to engage with regulators and improve general user experience as well as the overall platform performance.
- While those promises were quite ordinary, the WSJ’s report claims that most of the money went in another direction – to SBF himself.
- According to documents seen by WSJ, SBF sold a portion of his stake in the company and cashed out $300 million out of the $420 million.
(By Jordan Lyanchev)
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