(Reuters) – A U.S. court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7 billion in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a statement on Thursday.
In March, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion from customers.
“The order requires FTX to pay $8.7 billion in restitution and $4 billion in disgorgement, which will be used to further compensate victims for losses suffered as a result of the massive fraudulent scheme orchestrated by Samuel Bankman-Fried,” the commission said.
(Reporting by Jasper Ward, writing by David Ljunggren)
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