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The Supreme Court of the Bahamas — where FTX Digital Marketsis headquartered — has approved two provisional liquidators to oversee the crypto exchange’s assets.According to a Nov. 14 announcement from the Bahamas' Securities Commission, the country’s supreme court approved the appointments of PricewaterhouseCoopers advisory partner Kevin Cambridge and partner Peter
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“A team of financial investigators” are currently investigating the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement shared on Sunday. The police noted that the financial investigators were searching to see if “any criminal misconduct occurred.” Bahamas Law Enforcement Looks Into FTX Collapse After the Bahamas securities
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The once multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency enterprise, which was headquartered in the Bahamas, started unraveling after a CoinDesk article questioning the financials of FTX's sister company Alameda Research led to a liquidity crunch in early November. On Tuesday, rival exchange Binance was looking to buy the embattled FTX before the deal
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An investigation of possible criminal misconduct over the insolvency of cryptocurrency exchange FTX is underway by financial investigators and the Bahamas securities regulators, according to a statement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force sent to Reuters on Nov 13. The Royal Bahamas Police stated: "In light of the collapse of FTX
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Crypto exchange FTX was not required to allow Bahamas-based customers to withdraw their funds, a local financial regulator said Saturday. Original Source
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FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder Gary Wang and director of engineering Nishad Singh are understood to be in the Bahamas and are “under supervision” by the local authorities. The source familiar with the matter told Cointelegraph that the three former FTX executives, an Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison are looking
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According to Flightradar24’s official Twitter account, the most tracked flight at 3:33 a.m. on Nov. 12, 2022, was Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) private jet flying from the Bahamas to Argentina. While the flight track doesn’t mean SBF took the flight, a number of people suspected someone from SBF’s inner circle did
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As the FTX crisis continues to permeate through the cryptosphere, users of the platform are trying various ways to bypass the official process of withdrawing their funds from the collapsing exchange. On Nov. 10, the exchange announced that it will begin withdrawals of funds based in the Bahamas. According to the
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Many are former co-workers from quantitative trading firm Jane Street, others he met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater. All 10 are, or used to be, paired up in romantic relationships with each other. That includes Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, whose firm played a central role in
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Bahamian officials have campaigned for the industry’s business with open arms. The island is ready to be “a home for global leaders" in the crypto space, Prime Minister Philip Davis said at the SALT conference in the Bahamas in May, where Bart Smith, Susquehanna’s crypto lead, also spoke. Source
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