The founder
and owner of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), received
$2.2 billion in loans and payments from the platform and related entities,
mainly Alameda Research, according to the team of administrators in charge of
restructuring the company.
Five former
executives of the now-defunct FTX and SBF were slated to receive a sum total of
$3.2 billion, with the majority sourced from the Alameda hedge fund, a
significant contributor to the platform’s collapse.
The
breakdown of these payments is as follows:
- Sam
Bankman-Fried received approximately $2.2 billion. - Nishad
Singh was given $587 million. - Zixiao
“Gary” Wang received $246 million. - Ryan
Salame received $87 million. - John
Samuel Trabucco received $25 million. - Caroline
Ellison was given $6 million.
However,
according to the crypto exchange’s bankruptcy