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FTX Seeks to Recover $71M from Its Philanthropic and Life Science Arms

CoindeskCoindesk2023/07/20 07:04
By:Elizabeth Napolitano

The firms funneled corporate funds to other organizations on behalf of their founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s "personal aggrandizement," a court filing shows.

Defunct crypto exchange FTX and its sister firm Alameda want to retrieve more than $71 million from FTX's philanthropic arm and other life science entities, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.

This is the latest move by the bankrupt firm to recover funds for its customers. Last month, Alameda's lawyers FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried appeared to have paid to forge connections with celebrities and politicians. This month, FTX also asked the court to take back $323 million from the arm.

The FTX Foundation, in tandem with Latona, took roughly $71.5 million from FTX and Alameda Research "to make investments in and donations to life sciences companies for Bankman-Fried’s personal aggrandizement," lawyers argued.

They made the transfers to life science companies like Lumen Bioscience Inc. and Platform Life Sciences Inc. under the guise of effective altruism, a philosophy espousing the transfer of wealth from affluent individuals to those in financial need, the filing shows. But, helping the less fortunate wasn't the charitable arms true purpose, the firms' lawyers said.

"While purporting to make these investments for altruistic purposes (i.e., pandemic prevention and preparedness), Bankman-Fried in fact pursued these transactions because he believed that doing so would generate goodwill and amass political capital and influence for himself," the lawyers said in the filing.

t had also agreed to return $550,000 in donations it received from FTX.

Edited by Parikshit Mishra.



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