A Brazilian Supreme Court justice seized about $3 million in frozen funds of social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, both companies controlled by billionaire Elon Musk.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday seized about $3 million from bank accounts belonging to social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, both companies controlled by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

The move by Justice Alexandre de Moraes was aimed at collecting funds that are equivalent to the amount that X owes to the country in fines. The bank accounts of the two companies have since been unfrozen.

Legal analysts have questioned de Moraes’ prior decision to freeze Starlink’s bank account to pay for cases related to X. While Musk owns both X and SpaceX, which operates Starlink, the two companies are separate entities.

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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    2 months ago

    About the claims that X and Starlink are separate entities and one shouldn’t be affected by the other: it has since been revealed that it was Starlink who paid the salaries of X’s employees.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Courts are supposed to seize assets, especially when the defendant is a notorious deadbeat.