Federal prosecutors in Manhattan in March 2023 charged Kwon, who co-founded Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, with two counts every of securities fraud, wire fraud, commodities fraud and conspiracy.
Kwon has denied wrongdoing. He agreed final June to pay an US$80 million civil superb and be banned from cryptocurrency transactions as a part of a US$4.55 billion settlement that he and Terraform reached with the US Securities and Change Fee.
He’s anticipated to look earlier than US Justice of the Peace Choose Robert Lehrburger in Manhattan federal court docket on Thursday afternoon.
A lawyer for Terraform stated in closing arguments that Terraform and Kwon had been truthful about their merchandise and how they labored, even after they failed.
Kwon didn’t attend that trial as a result of he had been detained in Montenegro since March 2023. Terraform declared chapter final January.
