EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting
EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting
电动汽车初创公司法拉第未来向创始人贾跃亭关联公司支付 750 万美元
Faraday Future paid around $7.5 million to a company controlled by its founder Jia Yueting in 2025, according to a new regulatory filing. The long-struggling electric vehicle startup made the payments in a year when it delivered only four vehicles and lost nearly $400 million. The company has pivoted to selling cheaper vans and robots imported from China. 根据一份新的监管文件显示，法拉第未来（Faraday Future）在 2025 年向其创始人贾跃亭控制的一家公司支付了约 750 万美元。这家长期陷入困境的电动汽车初创公司在这一年里仅交付了四辆汽车，亏损近 4 亿美元。目前，该公司已转向销售从中国进口的廉价货车和机器人。
The payments happened while Faraday Future was still under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which was probing what are known as “related party transactions” between the company and entities related to or controlled by Jia, Faraday’s own filings have shown. The SEC was also investigating whether Faraday Future properly represented the level of control Jia had over the company when it went public in 2021, and whether it lied about early sales of its EVs in 2023. 法拉第未来的自身文件显示，这些付款发生时，该公司仍处于美国证券交易委员会（SEC）的调查之下。SEC 当时正在调查该公司与贾跃亭相关或控制的实体之间所谓的“关联方交易”。SEC 还调查了法拉第未来在 2021 年上市时是否如实披露了贾跃亭对公司的控制程度，以及是否在 2023 年对其电动汽车的早期销售情况撒谎。
The SEC dropped its four-year investigation in March, as TechCrunch first reported, despite having sent notices to Faraday Future, Jia, and other executives last year stating that investigators were recommending an enforcement action. The closure of the investigation comes amid a historic drop in white-collar crime enforcement during the second Trump administration. 正如 TechCrunch 此前报道的那样，尽管 SEC 去年曾向法拉第未来、贾跃亭及其他高管发出通知，称调查人员建议采取执法行动，但该机构已于 3 月终止了这项为期四年的调查。此次调查的结束正值特朗普第二任期内白领犯罪执法力度出现历史性下降之际。
The new transactions were revealed in Faraday Future’s annual proxy filing published on Thursday. It shows Faraday Future paid a mix of monthly $100,000 “consulting” fees, a $2 million “bonus payment,” and $1.7 million to repay loans from the company, which is called FF Global Partners LLC. The company did not explain the remaining $2.6 million in the filing. Faraday Future did not respond to a request for comment. 这些新的交易在周四发布的法拉第未来年度代理文件中披露。文件显示，法拉第未来向名为 FF Global Partners LLC 的公司支付了每月 10 万美元的“咨询费”、200 万美元的“奖金”以及 170 万美元的贷款偿还款。该公司在文件中并未解释剩余的 260 万美元用途。法拉第未来未回应置评请求。
Faraday Future describes FF Global as an “affiliate” of Jia in the proxy filing, and in previous filings has said he exerts “significant influence” over the LLC. FF Global has five “voting managers,” one of whom is Jia, while the others include business associates and a family member — his nephew Jerry Wang. 法拉第未来在代理文件中将 FF Global 描述为贾跃亭的“关联方”，并在之前的文件中表示，贾跃亭对该有限责任公司（LLC）施加“重大影响”。FF Global 设有五名“投票经理”，其中一人是贾跃亭，其余成员包括商业伙伴及其亲属——他的侄子 Jerry Wang。
Wang, who is a president at Faraday Future, draws a six-figure salary from FF Global, according to the filing. So does his wife, who is the head of FF Global’s legal department. FF Global also has a similar “consulting agreement” with a crypto holding company run by Wang (and advised by Jia) called AIXC. (Wang’s wife’s law firm also consults for AIXC.) 根据文件，担任法拉第未来总裁的 Jerry Wang 从 FF Global 领取六位数的薪水。他的妻子（FF Global 法律部门负责人）也是如此。FF Global 还与一家由 Wang 运营（并由贾跃亭担任顾问）的名为 AIXC 的加密货币控股公司签订了类似的“咨询协议”。（Wang 妻子的律师事务所也为 AIXC 提供咨询服务。）
FF Global is also a major shareholder of Faraday Future and — with Jia — controls almost every aspect of the EV company, to the point that Faraday labels this as a risk factor in its most recent annual filing. “Jia and FF Global, over which Mr. Jia exercises significant influence, have control over our management, business and operations, and may use this control in ways that are not aligned with our business or financial objectives or strategies or that are otherwise inconsistent with our interests,” the company wrote earlier this year. FF Global 也是法拉第未来的主要股东，并与贾跃亭共同控制着这家电动汽车公司的几乎所有方面，以至于法拉第未来在其最新的年度文件中将其列为风险因素。该公司今年早些时候写道：“贾跃亭和 FF Global（贾跃亭对其施加重大影响）控制着我们的管理、业务和运营，并可能以不符合我们业务或财务目标或战略的方式，或以其他不符合我们利益的方式行使这种控制权。”
FF Global also helped bring Jia back to power after the company went public in 2021. Shortly after Faraday Future merged with a special purpose acquisition company, the new public company board of directors opened an investigation into Jia’s movement of money in and out of the company, and into the disclosures made during the merger process. In early 2022, the board sidelined Jia, who has been blacklisted by China for financial fraud, after finding Faraday Future had misrepresented the level of control he had over the company. They then referred their findings to the SEC, which opened its investigation shortly after. FF Global 还帮助贾跃亭在公司 2021 年上市后重掌大权。在法拉第未来与一家特殊目的收购公司（SPAC）合并后不久，新上市公司的董事会就对贾跃亭在公司内外的资金流动以及合并过程中的披露情况展开了调查。2022 年初，董事会发现法拉第未来虚报了贾跃亭对公司的控制程度，随后将因金融欺诈被中国列入黑名单的贾跃亭边缘化。他们随后将调查结果提交给了 SEC，SEC 随即展开了调查。
FF Global, meanwhile, spent all of 2022 agitating to replace certain board members with ones friendly to Jia. This campaign became so intense that multiple board members received death threats. Those board members ultimately resigned in part because they feared for their lives. Jia was re-installed as co-CEO last year, and is now Faraday Future’s sole CEO. 与此同时，FF Global 在 2022 年全年都在积极游说，试图用对贾跃亭友好的成员替换部分董事会成员。这场运动变得如此激烈，以至于多名董事会成员收到了死亡威胁。这些董事会成员最终辞职，部分原因是担心自己的生命安全。贾跃亭去年被重新任命为联席 CEO，目前是法拉第未来的唯一 CEO。
FF Global is not the only Jia-related company that Faraday Future has paid, or plans to pay, money to. The company stated in its proxy filing that it paid $700,000 to a loan company associated with him last year. It also owes $8.5 million to Leshi Information Technology Co. Ltd., one of the companies related to his failed Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco, for “advertising services.” FF Global 并不是法拉第未来已经支付或计划支付资金的唯一一家与贾跃亭相关的公司。该公司在代理文件中表示，去年向一家与他有关联的贷款公司支付了 70 万美元。此外，它还欠乐视网信息技术（北京）股份有限公司（其失败的中国科技集团乐视旗下的公司之一）850 万美元的“广告服务费”。