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一 |     FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried believed in utilitarianism and thought rules against lying or stealing inhibited his ability to maximize the greatest benefit for the most people, his former girlfriend and co-worker testified Wednesday at his federal fraud trial."He didn't think rules like 'don't lie' or 'don't steal' fit into that framework," Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's on-again, off-again girlfriend, said.She said Bankman-Fried's belief caused her to accept behavior she recognized as wrong."I think it made me more willing to do things like lie or steal over time. When I started working at Alameda, I don't think I would have believed if you told me I would be sending false balance sheets or taking customer money," Ellison, who served as CEO of Alameda Research, said. "Over time it became something I was more comfortable with."Bankman-Fried faces seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering centered on his alleged use of customer deposits on the crypto trading platform FTX to cover losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to buy lavish real estate, among other personal expenses.On the witness stand for a second day Wednesday, Ellison walked the jury through Alameda balance sheets which, by October 2022, showed Bankman-Fried's private hedge fund owed FTX customers nearly $14 billion."We had a lot of risk on and we owed a lot of money to FTX customers," Ellison said. "We had no way to repay it."She said Bankman-Fried thought about trying to raise money from Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, or by selling shares in FTX, which would collapse in bankruptcy the following month, in November 2022."I was in a state of dread. I was thinking, worrying, imagining every day what would happen if people tried to withdraw too much money at one time," she said. "I was imagining all the FTX customers who we worked with who would get hurt by this."To shore up Alameda's precarious financial position Bankman-Fried told Ellison to repay Alameda's loans with money it borrowed surreptitiously from FTX customers, she testified Wednesday."He directed me to continue repaying Alameda's loans," Ellison said."How?" prosecutor Danielle Sassoon asked."By taking money from FTX customer funds," she replied.When Sassoon asked her if she knew it was wrong, Ellison replied, "Yeah I thought it was wrong," but continued to do it because "Sam told me to."By that point, Alameda had taken about $10 billion from FTX and Ellison said she worried its lender, Genesis, would find out."We had been borrowing increasing amounts of money from FTX customers and I didn't want Genesis to know that," Ellison said. "I didn't want Genesis or others to know that Alameda was borrowing a lot of money from FTX."Ellison said Bankman-Fried cautioned her against putting anything in writing, once telling her, "Anything we put on Slack should be something we're comfortable seeing in The New York Times."Ellison also described a "large bribe to Chinese government officials to get some of our trading accounts unlocked." Alameda had two trading accounts worth about a billion dollars on exchanges based in China, which were both frozen in 2021 as part of a Chinese government investigation into money laundering.It was a substantial amount of Alameda's trading capital at the time and Ellison accused Bankman-Fried of saying "that we should send the cryptocurrency transfers" equaling about $100 million.。    　　受本国芯片巨头股票回购以及外部环境缓和的提振，韩国首尔股市周三收盘上涨近1%，与此同时投资者静待英伟达发布财报。韩元兑美元汇率出现下跌。　　韩国综合股价指数（KOSPI）收盘上涨65.47点，涨幅0.97%，报6808.21点。　　市场成交规模温和，成交3.233亿股，成交金额22.38万亿韩元（折合161.5亿美元）。上涨个股584只，多于下跌个股的273只。　　该指数早盘震荡反复，随着机构投资者转为净买入方，大盘开始走强，机构净买入规模达7603.7亿韩元。　　外资与个人投资者为净卖出，合计抛售2.36万亿韩元。　　大信证券分析师李京敏表示：“在股票回购的支撑下，韩国综合指数重回6800点上方；同时国际油价回落和美债收益率下行，提振了市场投资情绪。”　　芯片巨头SK海力士自上周四起开展约65万股的股票回购，三星电子也于本周同步实施回购。　　投资者同样密切关注即将出炉的英伟达财报，这份财报将成为全球人工智能基础设施市场的重要风向标。　　权重龙头三星电子上涨1.75%，报261500韩元；同业对手SK海力士小幅上涨0.6%，报1688000韩元。　　行业龙头现代汽车下跌3.09%，报408000韩元；军工巨头韩华航空航天下跌1.36%，报1087000韩元；大型金融机构KB金融集团微涨0.12%，报166600韩元。　　有消息称美国政府提议韩国联合收购西屋电气公司股份，受此消息提振，核电板块个股走强。西屋电气目前由一家加拿大私募股权机构持有。　　截至当日下午4点30分，韩元兑美元报1384.8韩元，较上一交易日升值1.3韩元。责任编辑：江学思。

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