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CHE- CHE-268.689.958

previous company names: Canco GmbH (until 01/20/2012) Crypto Lawyers GmbH (until 02/08/19) K&G Lawyers For International Business And Tax Law GmbH (until 02/04/2019).

Legal form: GmbH (equivalent to LLC)

Date of registration: 06/15/2018 by Max Hartmut Alexander Rhotert and Ukaj Ernest

Address: Churerstrasse 135, 8808 Pfäffikon, Switzerland

Managing Director: Jürg Bavaud

Other important names: Ukaj Ernest, Rhotert Max

Company address: same “office building” as FTX Certificates GmbH and FTX Europe GmbH.

History and network of the company: (new company, managing director leading several other companies, company was renamed few times --> suspicious):

History and network FTX Switzerland GmbH

Again same people here.

CHE-313.215.416

previous company name: General Partners AG

legal form: GmbH (equivalent to LLC)

Date of registration: 07/01/2020

Address: Churerstrasse 135, 8808 Pfäffikon, Switzerland

Managing director: Jürg Bavaud, Max Rhotert

Other important names: Ernest Ukaj

Company address: same “office building” as all the other Swiss FTX companies

History and network of the company: (new company, managing director leading several other companies --> suspicious):

History and network FTX General Partners AG

Same names repeatedly.

CHE-153.425.864

previous company name: Digital Derivatives GmbH (until 04/08/2022)

legal form: GmbH (equivalent to LLC)

Date of registration: 10/09/2020 by Crypto Lawyers GmbH and Ernest Ukaj

Address: Churerstrasse 135, 8808 Pfäffikon, Switzerland

Managing Director: Jürg Bavaud

Other important names: Ernest Ukaj

Company address: same “office building” as all other Swiss FTX companies.

History and network of the company: (new company, managing director leading several other companies, --> suspicious):

History and network FTX Derivatives Ltd

Ok, at this point it gets a bit confusing. On website northdata.de, where I get my information about companies, the following publication was displayed, without further information:

Connection to Binance Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

Since this whole drama on twitter over Binance and FTX, I was particularly interested in this entry, especially since the date of 10/20/2022 is just some weeks before CZ's pivotal tweets, which he posted on 11/6/2012.

CZ Tweet on 11/06/2022

LINK CZ Tweet

"BINANCE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG" is registered in Germany, therefore I went back to https://www.handelsregister.de/ to gather more details. I downloaded all 8 available PDFs and read through them.

Unfortunately, I can't link the PDFs here, because the files must be downloaded from Handelsregister website. But you can look it up yourself via the search. Documents are in German only.

Since there is a connection between these companies, we will also include this Binance subsidiary in this research.

HRA 205838 District Court of Hanover

previously HRA 737027 District Court of Stuttgart

legal form: GmbH & Co. KG (limited liability company & limited partnership) Explanation

Date of registration: 08/26/2020 by JP Process Systems GmbH and Johannes Omari as limited partner

Address: Kampsriede 6 A, 30659 Hannover, Germany

Managing Director: Roland Christian Grieße

I will provide the important screenshots from this document with translation.

Doc Nr.1: 08/06/2020:

Doc Nr.1

Registering of BINANCE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG.

Doc Nr.2: 05/28/2021:

Doc Nr.2/1

Doc Nr.2/2

If I understand it correct this document tells us that the Company Digital Derivatives GmbH (later renamed to FTX Derivatives Ltd) was registered by Crypto Lawyers GmbH (later renamed to FTX Switzerland GmbH) and Ukaj Ernest.

Ok, but why is this document located in register portal of BINANCE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG??

Doc Nr.3: 06/10/2021:

Doc Nr.3/1

Limited partner Johannes Omari has left the company. He has transferred his limited partnership contribution of 100€ to Digital Derivatives GmbH (later renamed to FTX Derivatives Ltd)

Doc Nr.3/2

Document signed by Omari and Ukaj

Since this date FTX Derivatives Ltd was the limited partner of BINANCE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG.

Doc Nr.4: 09/11/2021

Doc Nr.4/1

Its again the same process: Limited partner Johannes Omari has left the company. He has transferred his limited partnership contribution of 100€ to Digital Derivatives GmbH (later renamed to FTX Derivatives Ltd)

But this time it is signed by Dr. Roland Grieße 5 months after Omari already left the company??

Doc Nr.4/2

Doc Nr.5: 06/03/2022

Next one is change of Company’s address from Tübingen to Hannover. I skip the standard text and add only signatures here.

Doc Nr.5

Signed by JP Process Systems GmbH and FTX Derivatives GmbH

Doc Nr.6: 06/27/2022

Doc Nr.6

Translation:

I, the undersigned Notary Peter Baumgarte in Hanover, hereby certify in accordance with

§ 21 BNotO based on the inspection carried out on June 3, 2022, of the electronic

register of the Canton of Schwyz under company number CHE-153.425.864, that there

FTX Derivatives GmbH with its registered office in Freienbach (previously: Herisau) and Mr. Max Rhotert as chairman of the management board with power of representation and that were also registered on June 3, 2022.

I guess this is a notary confirmation of FTX Derivatives GmbH registry on an request from Binance. Max ist that guy again who is manager of FTX Trading GmbH in Germany.

Doc Nr.7: 09/30/2022:

Doc Nr.7/1

Doc Nr.7/2

I guess that is just an updated registry document of FTX Derivates GmbH

Doc Nr.8: 10/12/2022:

Doc Nr.8/1

Translation:

We, the undersigned, hereby apply for registration in the commercial register:

FTX Derivatives GmbH as limited partner has left the company.

Doc Nr.8/2

I understand this document as removing FTX Derivatives GmbH from BINANCE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG.

~3 weeks after this document was signed CZ tweeted his escalating FTX tweet.

That was a lot of Documents, but I want to provide this to you and maybe someone can figure out why there is a connection between FTX and Bincance.

Have these guys started so many shell companies and it was just a coincidence that one of them was used by FTX and the other by Binance without the intention of being involved into each other or is it a purposive connection?

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