US authorities are turning their attention to FTX's Nishad Singh: Report

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission and prosecutors are reportedly investigating erstwhile FTX engineering manager Nishad Singh for perchance having a relation successful defrauding investors and users.

According to a Jan. 5 study from Bloomberg, U.S. officials are looking astatine individuals successful erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s interior ellipse arsenic portion of their transgression probe of the exchange’s collapse. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not blameworthy to each transgression charges against him, but erstwhile Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder ​​Gary Wang reached plea deals with prosecutors successful December, admitting to fraud astatine the company.

Sam Bankman-Fried has arrived successful tribunal for his arraignment. We’re told helium volition plead not blameworthy to each the charges against him. pic.twitter.com/yakSLkOus8

It’s unclear what relation Singh whitethorn person played successful the alleged transgression acts and regulatory violations astatine FTX Group. He was reportedly part of the ‘wirefraud’ chat group on with Ellison, Bankman-Fried and Wang, which allegedly discussed the amerciable fiscal ties betwixt FTX and Alameda. During his clip astatine FTX, Singh lived successful the Bahamas adjacent different employees of the crypto firm.

The lawsuit against Bankman-Fried is ongoing, with his transgression proceedings scheduled to statesman connected Oct. 2. On Jan. 4, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York — wherever the FTX transgression cases are being handled — announced the enactment of a task force to “trace and recover” missing idiosyncratic funds arsenic good arsenic analyse matters related to the exchange’s collapse.

Part of the lawsuit against FTX and its executives were allegations the steadfast utilized assets from the crypto speech to money investments done Alameda Research without the consent oregon cognition of users oregon investors. As portion of her plea agreement, Ellison said Alameda had access to a “borrowing facility” done FTX from 2019 to 2022.

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FTX Group filed for bankruptcy connected Nov. 11. The company’s bankruptcy proceedings successful the District of Delaware are besides ongoing, with the adjacent proceeding scheduled for Jan. 11. According to bankruptcy tribunal filings, Alameda loaned $1 cardinal to Bankman-Fried and $543 cardinal to Singh.