Posted on 12/27/2022 1:01:17 PM PST by Red Badger
According to a Bloomberg report published on Dec. 27, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the whereabouts of approximately $372 million in missing digital assets from now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX and FTX US. On Nov. 12, amidst bankruptcy and internal collapse, FTX warned customers of abnormal wallet activity regarding at least 228,523 Ether (ETH) transferred out of the exchange from an unknown perpetrator.
On Nov. 11, or the night of the company's bankruptcy filing, FTX US' general counsel Ryne Miller confirmed that the transactions were unauthorized and that the subsidiary exchange had moved all crypto to cold wallets as a precaution. On Nov. 20, blockchain forensics firm Elliptic wrote that the unauthorized transfers amounted to $477 million, and the unknown perpetrator swapped the stolen Ether for RenBTC, before being bridged to Bitcoin through the RenBridge service. Ren was acquired by FTX-linked hedge fund Alameda Research last year and has been alleged by Elliptic to "launder hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto."
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried claimed that the incident was perpetrated by either a former FTX employee or someone who had unauthorized access to a former employee's computer. "I've narrowed it down to like eight people. I don't know which one it was," he said in an interview with citizen journalist Tiffany Fong.
In the issue's last known update on Nov. 29, crypto analyst zachXBT alleged that a portion of the stolen funds were transferred to Singapore-based exchange OKX using a Bitcoin mixer. Lennix Lai, director of OKX, responded: "#OKX is aware of the situation, and the team is investigating the wallet flow."
LOL all for show they wont investigate squat..he wont be spending one day in jail, he gave money to all the right people so its fine
Was that interview conducted at his pool or at some fancy restaurant?....and was the Warden or the DOJ there serving drinks? .... inquiring minds want to know....../s
Department of Justice ? hahahaha. I think I would honestly die of shock if they actually find anything worthwhile
The DOJ is on it.
spit
The DOJ is just trying to figure out how to get the cash flow back to the democrats. Remember when Eric Holder sent DOJ goons to help “churches” and “charities” get around IRS rules? Same thing here. But BILLIONS of tax dollars are being laundered to the democrats.
Try lookin' in Zelensky's and Biden's pockets, you'll find 'em.
This is what FTX did, basically, all the time. They created their own tokens, had them listed on various exchanges, and either traded them or borrowed against them to buy Bitcoin and Ether. Other exchanges and traders had to be in on the scam to bid up the value of the FTX tokens on the various exchanges. We'll see if the investigators go down every rabbit hole but I am wondering how much of this was an intentional money laundering operation for the wealthy to pay off the powerful. It's complicated and sophisticated - which these FTX people don't seem to be - but the big money investors who paid into it are.
Sucks really badly for the small timers who got suckered into putting their crypto into this exchange but the big money investors who financed it and/or put their coins into it... they had to know better.
Like OJ looking for Nicole’s killer
Look under the rug at the DNC.
Panama
Caymans
Malaysia
Sure they are lost. You believe this, right?
(The current whereabouts of the funds remain unknown.)
Try the bank 🏦 accounts of prominent Democrat politicians.
Much of it will be there.
“Like OJ looking for Nicole’s killer“
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! We ALL know where the money has gone.
Famous searches in history:
1) Noah’s Ark
2) extra terrestrial life
3) Nicole Brown Simpson’s killer
4) Hillary’s computers
5) Supreme Court leaker
Let me know when they find anything...
Anybody check LIEberal Democrats off-shore bank accounts?
Dunno much about this, but your explanation seems on the mark. Explains both method and motive.
Have ya checked Maxine’s other purse, yet? :)
I understood with blockchain you had a forever path of every person who owned the coin and.....
Oh wait, never mind.
He should team up with OJ to find the thief
The parents have it and will use some of it to pay off those that will kill them if they do not.
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