從黑山引渡到美國後，Do Kwon 對詐欺指控不認罪

Do Kwon 是兩種數位貨幣背後的韓國加密貨幣企業家，這兩種數位貨幣在 2022 年損失了約 400 億美元，週四他不認罪

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleaded not guilty on Thursday to U.S. criminal fraud charges after being extradited from Montenegro this week.

Terraform Labs 聯合創始人 Do Kwon 本週從黑山被引渡，週四對美國刑事詐欺指控表示無罪。

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Thursday unsealed a nine-count indictment charging Kwon, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, with securities fraud, wire fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering conspiracy.

週四，曼哈頓的聯邦檢察官公佈了一份包含 9 項罪名的起訴書，指控 Kwon 參與證券詐欺、電匯詐欺、大宗商品詐欺和共謀洗錢。

Kwon, 33, appeared in court wearing an olive green long-sleeved shirt and black sweatpants as his lawyer Andrew Chesley entered the plea at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Lehrburger in Manhattan federal court.

33 歲的權身穿橄欖綠長袖襯衫和黑色運動褲出庭，他的律師安德魯·切斯利(Andrew Chesley) 在曼哈頓聯邦法院美國治安法官羅伯特·萊爾伯格(Robert Lehrburger) 的聽證會上提出抗辯。

The judge ordered Kwon detained after Chesley said he would not seek bail at this time. Kwon took a copy of the 79-page indictment with him as U.S. marshals led him out of the courtroom. He is expected back in court on Jan. 8.

在切斯利表示目前不會尋求保釋後，法官下令拘留權。當美國法警將權帶出法庭時，他隨身攜帶了一份 79 頁的起訴書副本。預計他將於 1 月 8 日重返法庭。

Kwon had agreed last June to pay an $80-million civil fine and be banned from crypto transactions as part of a $4.55-billion settlement that he and Terraform reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

去年 6 月，Kwon 同意支付 8,000 萬美元的民事罰款，並被禁止進行加密貨幣交易，這是他和 Terraform 與美國證券交易委員會達成的 45.5 億美元和解協議的一部分。

In Thursday’s indictment, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office alleged Kwon misled investors in 2021 about TerraUSD, a so-called stablecoin designed to maintain a value of $1.

在周四的起訴書中，曼哈頓美國檢察官辦公室指控 Kwon 在 2021 年就 TerraUSD（一種旨在維持 1 美元價值的所謂穩定幣）誤導了投資者。

Kwon allegedly told investors a computer algorithm known as “Terra Protocol” had restored the coin’s value when it slipped below its peg in May 2021, when in fact he arranged for a high-frequency trading firm to secretly buy millions of dollars of the token to artificially prop up its price.

據稱，Kwon 在2021 年5 月跌破錨定匯率時告訴投資者，一種名為「Terra Protocol」的電腦演算法已經恢復了代幣的價值，而事實上，他安排了一家高頻交易公司秘密購買了數百萬美元的代幣，以恢復其價值。

Prosecutors said that false claim and others drove retail and institutional investors to buy Terraform products and boost the value of Luna, a more traditional token developed by Kwon that fluctuated in value but was closely linked to TerraUSD, to $50-billion by the spring of 2022.

檢察官表示，虛假陳述和其他行為促使散戶和機構投資者購買Terraform 產品，並將Luna 的價值推高至2022 年春季的500 億美元。波動，但與TerraUSD 密切相關。

“Much of this growth followed Kwon’s brazen deceptions about Terraform and its technology,” the indictment said.

起訴書稱：“這種增長很大程度上是因為 Kwon 對 Terraform 及其技術進行了無恥的欺騙。”

When TerraUSD’s value began sliding again in May 2022, the trading firm warned that propping it up “wasn’t so simple this time,” according to the indictment.

起訴書稱，當 2022 年 5 月 TerraUSD 的價值再次開始下滑時，該交易公司警告稱，支撐其價格「這次沒那麼簡單」。

TerraUSD and Luna crashed that month, dragging down the value of other cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, and caused wider havoc in the crypto market. Prosecutors did not identify the trading firm. SEC lawyers said in their civil case that Jump Trading had propped up TerraUSD in May 2021.

TerraUSD 和 Luna 當月崩盤，拖累了包括比特幣在內的其他加密貨幣的價值，並對加密市場造成了更廣泛的破壞。檢察官沒有透露該貿易公司的身份。 SEC 律師在民事案件中表示，Jump Trading 在 2021 年 5 月支持了 TerraUSD。

Jump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Jump 沒有立即回應置評請求。

In a trial on the SEC claims, a federal jury in Manhattan found Kwon and Terraform liable last April for defrauding cryptocurrency investors. Terraform’s lawyer had said in closing arguments that the company and Kwon had been truthful about their products and how they worked, even when they failed.

在針對 SEC 指控的審判中，曼哈頓的聯邦陪審團裁定 Kwon 和 Terraform 去年 4 月因欺騙加密貨幣投資者而承擔責任。 Terraform 的律師在結案陳詞中表示，該公司和 Kwon 對他們的產品及其工作方式是誠實的，即使他們失敗了。

Kwon did not attend that trial because he had been detained in Montenegro since March 2023 on forgery charges. He was handed over to U.S. law enforcement officers on Tuesday at an airport in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro.

權力沒有出席該審判，因為他自 2023 年 3 月以來一直因偽造罪名被拘留在黑山。週二，他在黑山首都波德戈里察的一個機場被移交給美國執法人員。

Terraform declared bankruptcy last January.

Terraform 去年一月宣布破產。

Kwon is one of several cryptocurrency moguls to face federal charges after a slump in digital token prices in 2022 prompted the collapse of a number of companies.

2022 年數位代幣價格暴跌導致多家公司倒閉，Kwon 是面臨聯邦指控的幾位加密貨幣大亨之一。

Sam Bankman-Fried, who founded the exchange FTX, is appealing his conviction and 25-year sentence last March for stealing $8-billion from customers.

FTX 交易所創始人 Sam Bankman-Fried 正在對去年 3 月因盜竊客戶 80 億美元而被判 25 年徒刑的定罪提出上訴。

Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of fraud.

加密貨幣借貸公司攝氏網路 (Celsius Network) 的創始人兼前執行長 Alex Mashinsky 上個月承認了兩項欺詐罪。