破产的加密货币贷款公司Celsius的创始人亚历克斯·马辛斯基（Alex Mashinsky）承认欺诈罪

加密货币借贷公司摄氏度网络 (Celsius Network) 的创始人兼前首席执行官亚历克斯·马辛斯基 (Alex Mashinsky) 在美国承认两项欺诈罪。

Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of fraud in connection with the 2022 collapse of his cryptocurrency lending company, admitting that he lied to customers and manipulated the price of Celsius’s proprietary crypto token.

周二，Celsius Network 创始人 Alex Mashinsky 承认了两项与 2022 年其加密货币借贷公司倒闭有关的欺诈罪名，承认自己向客户撒谎并操纵了摄氏度专有加密代币的价格。

Mashinsky, 59, faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count each of commodities fraud and a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of CEL, Celsius’s in-house token, during a hearing before US District Judge John Koeltl.

59 岁的 Mashinsky 在美国地区法官 John Koeltl 的听证会上承认了商品欺诈和操纵 CEL（Celsius 内部代币）价格的欺诈计划各一项罪名，面临最高 30 年监禁。

As part of his plea deal with prosecutors, Mashinsky agreed not to appeal any sentence of 30 years or less. He also agreed to forfeit $42m, which prosecutors said he personally reaped from selling his holdings of the CEL token.

作为与检察官达成的认罪协议的一部分，马辛斯基同意不对任何 30 年或以下的刑期提出上诉。他还同意没收 4200 万美元，检察官称这笔钱是他个人通过出售持有的 CEL 代币获得的。

Prosecutors in Manhattan indicted Mashinsky on seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and market manipulation charges on July 13, 2023, accusing him of misleading Celsius customers to persuade them to invest, and artificially inflating the value of his company’s proprietary crypto token. He pleaded not guilty later that day.

曼哈顿检察官于 2023 年 7 月 13 日对 Mashinsky 提出七项欺诈、共谋和市场操纵指控，指控他误导摄氏度客户以说服他们投资，并人为抬高其公司专有加密代币的价值。当天晚些时候，他不认罪。

Celsius filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, which allows a business to continue operating while it works on a plan to repay its creditors, in July 2022 after customers rushed to withdraw deposits as crypto prices fell. Many were initially unable to access their funds. The company exited bankruptcy on January 31, and has pivoted to Bitcoin mining.

2022 年 7 月，由于加密货币价格下跌，客户纷纷提取存款，Celsius 于 2022 年 7 月在美国根据《破产法》第 11 章申请了破产保护，该保护允许企业在制定偿还债权人的计划的同时继续运营。许多人最初无法获得资金。该公司于 1 月 31 日摆脱破产，并转向比特币挖矿。

In court on Tuesday, Mashinsky admitted to giving Celsius customers “false comfort” by giving an interview in 2021 in which he said Celsius had received approval from regulators for its “Earn” programme, which it had not.

周二，马辛斯基在法庭上承认，他在 2021 年接受采访时向摄氏度的客户提供了“虚假的安慰”，他在采访中表示，摄氏度的“Earn”计划已获得监管机构的批准，但实际上并未获得监管机构的批准。

The Earn programme allowed users to deposit cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether and receive weekly interest payments, offering as much as 18 percent annually.

Earn 计划允许用户存入比特币、以太坊和 Tether 等加密货币，并每周收到利息，每年利息高达 18%。

Mashinsky said he also failed to disclose that he had been selling his holdings of CEL.

马辛斯基表示，他也没有透露自己一直在出售所持光大控股的股份。

“I know what I did was wrong, and I want to try to do whatever I can to make it right,” Mashinsky said.

马辛斯基说：“我知道我做错了，我想尽我所能纠正错误。”

Cohen-Pavon pleaded guilty in September 2023 and agreed to cooperate with the prosecutors’ investigation.

科恩-帕文于 2023 年 9 月认罪，并同意配合检察官调查。

Prosecutors have said that Mashinsky personally reaped approximately $42m in proceeds from selling his holdings of the CEL token.

检察官表示，马辛斯基个人通过出售其持有的 CEL 代币获得了约 4200 万美元的收益。

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, was convicted of stealing roughly $8bn from the exchange’s customers in November 2023 and sentenced in March to 25 years in prison.

FTX 创始人 Sam Bankman-Fried 因 2023 年 11 月从该交易所客户窃取约 80 亿美元而被定罪，并于 3 月被判处 25 年监禁。