US federal law enforcement has asked crypto exchange Paxos to freeze assets associated with four Ethereum addresses.
According to the press release:
"Paxos, at the direction of US Federal Law enforcement, froze 11,184.38 PAXG tokens valued at ~$19M. These tokens were on FTX and moved to unknown addresses in the last 24hrs."
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Last November 11, FTX Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Sam Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO of the company.
On the same day, Tether Limited blocked 46,370,701 USDT of FTX on the Tron blockchain at the request of law enforcement, and, later, 31.4 million USDT. This happened after PeckShield specialists drew attention to transfers totaling more than $400 million from accounts of the exchange to third-party addresses.