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<p class="has-drop-cap">According to a Thursday <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N37F1LL" target="_blank" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" class="deco-link">report</a>, FTX filed three lawsuits pertaining to the bankrupt company’s acquisition of Embed, a stock trading platform, in 2022. FTX is allegedly seeking to claw back approximately $240 million. In the lawsuits, John J. Ray III described last year’s acquisition as “old-fashioned embezzlement.”</p> 
<h3 id="ftx-wants-to-recover-240-million-from-embed-acquisition-calls-the-platform-uselless">FTX Wants to Recover $240 Million From Embed Acquisition, Calls the Platform Uselless.</h3> 
<p>The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX reportedly filed three lawsuits with regard to its <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ftx-us-acquires-clearing-firm-embed-to-enhance-ftx-stocks-301572039.html" target="_blank" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" class="deco-link">2022 acquisition of Embed</a> on May 17th. The lawsuits are aimed at Sam Bankman-Fried, Embed stakeholders, and Embed’s co-founder Michael Giles along with other executives.</p> 
<p>According to John J. Ray III—FTX’s current CEO—the acquisition of Embed can best be described as “old-fashioned embezzlement.” Allegedly, the platform was acquired at a severely inflated price without any prior research into its actual usefulness.</p> 
<p>Reportedly, as a stock trading platform, Embed is both bug-ridden and generally useless. In total, FTX is seeking to claw back around $240 million from the acquisition—$236.8 million from Giles and other stakeholders, and another $6.9 million from minority stakeholders.</p> 
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<h3 id="the-herculean-task-to-recover-ftx-s-missing-assets">The “Herculean” Task to Recover FTX’s Missing Assets</h3> 
<p>Soon after FTX filed for bankruptcy—and as the scale of wrongdoing within the company became known—the question of how much of its assets can the current management even recover emerged. Only weeks after the company collapsed, the team headed by Ray even <a href="https://tokenist.com/ftx-hires-forensic-investigators-to-locate-missing-money/" rel="dofollow" class="deco-link">hired forensic investigators</a> to help with the search for the missing money.</p> 
<p>Despite a January report calling the effort to locate and secure the assets <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ftx-debtors-provide-additional-information-to-customers-and-other-stakeholders-301723770.html" target="_blank" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" class="deco-link">a “Herculean” task</a>, 2023 has brought some cause for cautious optimism. The bankrupt exchange has released multiple reports on its progress and has even undertaken several actions in an attempt to recover its assets.</p> 
<p>Perhaps the largest of these is the <a href="https://tokenist.com/alameda-sues-grayscale-dcg-and-barry-silbert-aiming-to-retrieve-9b/" rel="dofollow" class="deco-link">lawsuit against DCG’s Grayscale</a> seeking to unlock up to $9 billion of FTX’s assets. Still, there have also been several setbacks, and some recent revelations, like the carefree way in which Sam Bankman-Fried discussed the loss and <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/sam-bankman-fried-joked-about-losing-50m-in-assets-report/" target="_blank" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" class="deco-link">misplacement of tens of millions of dollars</a>, still give sufficient cause for concern.</p> 
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<p><strong><em>Do you think FTX will manage to recover the $240 million from Embed? Let us know in the comments below.</em></strong></p> 
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tokenist.com/ftx-seeking-a-250m-refund-on-its-acquisition-of-embed/">FTX Seeking a $250M Refund on its Acquisition of Embed</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tokenist.com">Tokenist</a>.</p>

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