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FTX前华裔高管:拿到过2亿到3亿美元的贷款,但记不起用来干什么了

FTX前华裔高管:拿到过2亿到3亿美元的贷款,但记不起用来干什么了

BEN WEISS 2023-10-13
为了指证班克曼-弗里德,王与政府签署了一项合作协议。

2023年10月10日,FTX联合创始人、前首席技术官加里·王(Gary Wang)在纽约出庭。 图片来源:YUKI IWAMURA—BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

王子肖(音译,Gary Wang,也译作加里·王)在担任现已破产的加密货币交易所FTX的首席技术官时,曾亲自签署了数亿美元的贷款。用于什么投资呢?他在前加密货币大亨山姆·班克曼-弗里德(Sam Bankman-Fried)受人瞩目的欺诈案受审作证第三天表示,他"回忆不起来了"。

为了指证班克曼-弗里德,王与政府签署了一项合作协议。他表示,FTX的前首席执行官指示他从Alameda Research贷款(班克曼-弗里德也是该加密货币对冲基金的所有者)。王说,这些贷款是用来“投资”的,但他不记得大部分贷款的用途,只记得部分资金用于收购 LedgerX(FTX在2021年收购了LedgerX)。

王补充说,贷款的利息支付变得如此繁琐,以至于他又从Alameda Research贷款100万美元来支付这些费用。(他用这笔贷款中的20万美元在圣基茨购买了一套房子。)

在辩方和控方询问他从Alameda Research欠下的巨额债务后,主审法官刘易斯·卡普兰(Lewis Kaplan)进行了干预。他问道:"你为什么要在不知道贷款用途的情况下签署一大堆贷款文件?”

王回答说:"山姆让我这么做的,我信任他。"他指的是班克曼-弗里德,他最初是在高中时的数学夏令营上认识班克曼-弗里德的。

根据班克曼-弗里德的律师周一晚间提交的一份文件,这位FTX前首席执行官的律师引出了关于贷款的讨论,显然是为了证明FTX的前任法律顾问,特别是孙灿(音译)和丹尼尔·弗里德伯格(Dan Friedberg),给交易所高管提供了毫无根据且风险很大的法律建议。王说,孙和弗里德伯格都指示他在本票上签字。

这可能是一项更广泛战略的一部分,目的是进行律师建议辩护,也就是说,班克曼-弗里德和他的副手们是根据所谓的不当法律指导行事的。

除了王愿意以个人名义为班克曼-弗里德承担数亿美元的债务之外,他在作证的第三天,也是最后一天,还对自己在FTX的最后日子做了非常准确的描述。

他说,他在11月17日主动与检察官会面,当时距离这家加密货币交易所申请破产还不到一周。王、他的律师和政府加快讨论进程,他于12月19日与司法部签署了一项合作协议。

周二下午,他离开了证人席。按计划,下一位证人是Alameda Research前首席执行官卡洛琳·埃里森(Caroline Ellison),她也同意与政府合作。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

王子肖(音译,Gary Wang,也译作加里·王)在担任现已破产的加密货币交易所FTX的首席技术官时,曾亲自签署了数亿美元的贷款。用于什么投资呢?他在前加密货币大亨山姆·班克曼-弗里德(Sam Bankman-Fried)受人瞩目的欺诈案受审作证第三天表示,他"回忆不起来了"。

为了指证班克曼-弗里德,王与政府签署了一项合作协议。他表示,FTX的前首席执行官指示他从Alameda Research贷款(班克曼-弗里德也是该加密货币对冲基金的所有者)。王说,这些贷款是用来“投资”的,但他不记得大部分贷款的用途,只记得部分资金用于收购 LedgerX(FTX在2021年收购了LedgerX)。

王补充说,贷款的利息支付变得如此繁琐,以至于他又从Alameda Research贷款100万美元来支付这些费用。(他用这笔贷款中的20万美元在圣基茨购买了一套房子。)

在辩方和控方询问他从Alameda Research欠下的巨额债务后,主审法官刘易斯·卡普兰(Lewis Kaplan)进行了干预。他问道:"你为什么要在不知道贷款用途的情况下签署一大堆贷款文件?”

王回答说:"山姆让我这么做的,我信任他。"他指的是班克曼-弗里德,他最初是在高中时的数学夏令营上认识班克曼-弗里德的。

根据班克曼-弗里德的律师周一晚间提交的一份文件,这位FTX前首席执行官的律师引出了关于贷款的讨论,显然是为了证明FTX的前任法律顾问,特别是孙灿(音译)和丹尼尔·弗里德伯格(Dan Friedberg),给交易所高管提供了毫无根据且风险很大的法律建议。王说,孙和弗里德伯格都指示他在本票上签字。

这可能是一项更广泛战略的一部分,目的是进行律师建议辩护,也就是说,班克曼-弗里德和他的副手们是根据所谓的不当法律指导行事的。

除了王愿意以个人名义为班克曼-弗里德承担数亿美元的债务之外,他在作证的第三天,也是最后一天,还对自己在FTX的最后日子做了非常准确的描述。

他说,他在11月17日主动与检察官会面,当时距离这家加密货币交易所申请破产还不到一周。王、他的律师和政府加快讨论进程,他于12月19日与司法部签署了一项合作协议。

周二下午,他离开了证人席。按计划,下一位证人是Alameda Research前首席执行官卡洛琳·埃里森(Caroline Ellison),她也同意与政府合作。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

Zixiao (Gary) Wang personally signed for hundreds of millions of dollars in loans when he was chief technology officer at the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. Why? He couldn’t “recall,” he said during his third day of testimony in the blockbuster trial of former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried.

Wang, who signed a cooperation agreement with the government to testify against Bankman-Fried, said that the former CEO of FTX had directed him to take out the loans from Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund Bankman-Fried also owned. These were for “investments,” Wang said, but he couldn’t remember what most were for, other than some capital allocated for the purchase of LedgerX, which FTX bought in 2021.

Interest payments on the loans became so cumbersome, Wang added, that he took out yet another loan from Alameda Research for $1 million to cover those costs. (He spent $200,000 of that loan on a house in St. Kitts.)

After the defense and prosecution asked him questions about the considerable debt he took on from Alameda, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding over the trial, intervened. “Why’d you sign a bunch of loan documents when you didn’t know they were for?” he asked.

“Sam told me to, and I trusted him,” Wang responded, in reference to Bankman-Fried, whom he had originally met at a math camp in high school.

Lawyers for the former CEO of FTX drew out the discussion on loans in an apparent attempt to show that previous legal counsel for FTX, specifically Can Sun and Dan Friedberg, gave executives at the exchange unwarranted and risky legal advice, according to a filing Bankman-Fried’s lawyers filed on Monday night. Wang said that both Sun and Friedberg directed him to sign the promissory notes.

This is potentially part of a broader strategy to wage an advice-of-counsel defense, or that Bankman-Fried and his lieutenants acted on allegedly misplaced legal guidance.

In addition to Wang’s willingness to put himself personally on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in debt on Bankman-Fried’s behalf, the third and final day of his testimony included the most precise account of his final days at FTX.

He said that he voluntarily met with prosecutors on Nov. 17, less than a week after the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy. Discussions between Wang, his lawyers, and the government accelerated, and he signed a cooperation agreement with the Justice Department on Dec. 19.

He left the stand on Tuesday afternoon. The next scheduled witness was Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research who also agreed to cooperate with the government.

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