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Civil case

SEC v. Samuel Bankman-Fried

Authority: US Securities and Exchange Commission
Case number: Not published
Filed or opened: 13 December 2022
Organization: FTX Trading Ltd.
Current stage: Complaint filed. Later stage not checked.
Outcome: Not checked in this review^S2.

Decisions and steps

Claims this case bears on

Contradicted96
Before its collapse, FTX's founder told customers, investors and the public that FTX customer deposits were kept safe, held in custody and kept separate from company assets, according to DOJ.
Regulator statement, 28 March 20243 records citedFraud

Sources

S2Tier A SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTXUS Securities and Exchange Commission. Regulator press release. 13 December 2022.Sets out SEC allegations of diverted customer funds. A complaint is an allegation, not a finding.