从黑山引渡到美国后，Do Kwon 对欺诈指控不认罪

两种数字货币背后的韩国加密货币企业家 Do Kwon 周四表示无罪，这两种数字货币在 2022 年损失了约 400 亿美元

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 联合创始人 Do Kwon 于本周从黑山被引渡，周四对美国刑事欺诈指控表示无罪。

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.

周四，曼哈顿的联邦检察官公布了一份包含 9 项罪名的起诉书，指控 Kwon 参与证券欺诈、电汇欺诈、大宗商品欺诈和共谋洗钱。

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 岁的权身穿橄榄绿长袖衬衫和黑色运动裤出庭，他的律师安德鲁·切斯利 (Andrew Chesley) 在曼哈顿联邦法院美国治安法官罗伯特·莱尔伯格 (Robert Lehrburger) 的听证会上提出抗辩。

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会寻求保释后，法官下令拘留权。当美国法警将权带出法庭时，他随身携带了一份 79 页的起诉书副本。预计他将于 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 8000 万美元的民事罚款，并被禁止进行加密货币交易，这是他和 Terraform 与美国证券交易委员会达成的 45.5 亿美元和解协议的一部分。

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.

在周四的起诉书中，曼哈顿美国检察官办公室指控 Kwon 在 2021 年就 TerraUSD（一种旨在维持 1 美元价值的所谓稳定币）误导了投资者。

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.

据称，Kwon 告诉投资者，当 2021 年 5 月该币跌破锚定汇率时，一种名为“Terra Protocol”的计算机算法已经恢复了该代币的价值，而事实上，他安排了一家高频交易公司秘密购买了数百万美元的该代币，以恢复其价值。人为抬高其价格。

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.

检察官表示，虚假陈述和其他行为促使散户和机构投资者购买 Terraform 产品，并将 Luna 的价值推高至 2022 年春季的 500 亿美元。 Luna 是 Kwon 开发的一种更传统的代币，其价值波动，但与 TerraUSD 密切相关。 。

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

起诉书称：“这种增长很大程度上是因为 Kwon 对 Terraform 及其技术进行了无耻的欺骗。”

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.

起诉书称，当 2022 年 5 月 TerraUSD 的价值再次开始下滑时，该交易公司警告称，支撑其价格“这次并不那么简单”。

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 当月崩盘，拖累了包括比特币在内的其他加密货币的价值，并对加密市场造成了更广泛的破坏。检察官没有透露该贸易公司的身份。 SEC 律师在民事案件中表示，Jump Trading 在 2021 年 5 月支撑了 TerraUSD。

Jump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Jump 没有立即回应置评请求。

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.

在针对 SEC 指控的审判中，曼哈顿的一个联邦陪审团裁定 Kwon 和 Terraform 去年 4 月因欺骗加密货币投资者而承担责任。 Terraform 的律师在结案陈词中表示，该公司和 Kwon 对他们的产品及其工作方式是诚实的，即使他们失败了。

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.

权某没有出席该审判，因为他自 2023 年 3 月以来一直因伪造文件罪被拘留在黑山。周二，他在黑山首都波德戈里察的一个机场被移交给美国执法人员。

Terraform declared bankruptcy last January.

Terraform 去年一月宣布破产。

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 年数字代币价格暴跌导致多家公司倒闭，Kwon 是面临联邦指控的几位加密货币大亨之一。

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 交易所创始人萨姆·班克曼·弗里德 (Sam Bankman-Fried) 对去年 3 月因盗窃客户 80 亿美元而被判处 25 年徒刑提出上诉。

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

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) 上个月承认了两项欺诈罪。