FTX Executives Used ‘Korea’ Account to Mask Giant Alameda Liabilities
- GitHub account authored code that hid Alameda’s liabilities
- Account beared name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh
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A GitHub account bearing the name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh authored code that hid Alameda Research’s ballooning liabilities on the now-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, according to internal documentation reviewed by Bloomberg News.
The documentation, in the form of comments associated with specific lines of code, offers clues to the origins of a mysterious account on FTX that a regulator alleges helped mask mounting debts of its sister trading firm Alameda Research. The relationship between the two firms, and alleged misuse of FTX customer funds, led to criminal charges against founder Sam Bankman-Fried.