CFTC says Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether are commodities in fraud complaint against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) lists three crypto assets that it considers to be commodities.
In a fraud complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda Research, the CFTC says that digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Tether (USDT) are commodities.
“A digital asset is anything that can be stored and transferred electronically and has associated ownership or rights of use.
Digital assets include virtual currencies, such as bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and tether (USDT), which are digital representations of value that act as mediums of exchange, units of account and/or stores of value.
Certain digital assets are “commodities,” including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), tether (USDT), and others…”
In the fraud complaint, the CFTC claims that, among others, Sam Bankman-Fried and the crypto entities he founded and led, “misappropriated customer funds for their own use and benefit”.
“Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives also took hundreds of millions of dollars in poorly documented ‘loans’ from Alameda that they used to buy luxury real estate and real estate, make political donations and for other unauthorized uses.”
Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested earlier this week in the Bahamas when the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York issued an indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and campaign . financial laws and six counts of fraud.
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