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SBF set up company for customer deposits after FTX bank rejection - Business Insider

  • Four new charges against Sam Bankman-Fried were unsealed on Thursday.
  • Prosecutors say FTX.US was denied opening a California bank account as it wasn't a licensed money services business.
  • So SBF created a new company to take customer deposits, an indictment says.

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When a California bank refused to give FTX an account in early 2020 because it wasn't registered as a money services business, prosecutors say that Sam Bankman-Fried started a new company to skirt that prohibition, and subsequently made false statements on a due dilligence questionnaire.

The allegations form part of new charges against Bankman-Fried unsealed this week for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business – two of four new counts that were made public Thursday. The bank's name was not revealed in the court filing.

The low-profile company, called North Dimension, was founded in August 2020 and was previously revealed in other complaints against Bankman-Fried. Last December, the Securities and Exchange Commission said that some FTX...



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