Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of now-defunct crypto-lending firm FTX, denied that he was in a secret chat group called “Wirefraud,” hours before his arrest in the Bahamas on Monday.
Bankman-Fried responded to a tweet accusing him of being in the chat group saying: “If this is true then I wasn’t a member of that inner circle. (I’m quite sure it’s just false; I have never heard of such a group.)”
The apparent chat group, based on encrypted messaging platform Signal, included members of FTX’s inner circle, the Australian Financial Review reported first.
Alongside Bankman-Fried, FTX’s co-founder Gary Wang, engineer Nishad Singh, and former CEO of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison were in the group to share information that they hoped would remain hidden, according to AFR.
[This one probably deserves the “too fun to check” label, but I already used it today. — Ed]
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