I personally have no doubt that the screenshots he shared are all faked, he probably got one of his friends(an accomplice) to change the name of he's or her telegram to that of NEWINU project admin, had that chat with him or her, so that he could have something to show as a defense to this accusation as he already knew that this will come up, (this screenshots are what he spent the two days offline preparing)
On a general note, am not saying that Small rabbit is the scammer, (The forum still have to decide on this), but on my own personal assessment, I say that Small rabbit is GUILTY AS CHARGED.
I don’t use the Binance payment method SmalRabbit used to pay back the owner of Bounty so I can’t say much about it but if his Telegram’s and Binance time zone are same which most likely are then it’s proven he lied and case is closed.