Sam Bankman-Fried, the central determine within the collapse of crpyto alternate FTX, has simply been arrested in The Bahamas and is prone to be shortly extradited to the USA to face felony expenses.
As CNBC report, authorities in The Bahamas have launched a press release which reads:
The Bahamas and the USA have a shared curiosity in holding accountable all people related to FTX who could have betrayed the general public belief and damaged the legislation. Whereas the USA is pursuing felony expenses towards SBF individually, The Bahamas will proceed its personal regulatory and felony investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its legislation enforcement and regulatory companions in the USA and elsewhere.
US authorities issued a press release shortly afterwards:
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Bankman-Fried, who sucked ass at League of Legends by the best way, ran FTX. In only a few quick years the crypto alternate went from nothing to plastering its title throughout all method of sporting occasions and journal covers. It was thought-about tremendous invaluable as a result of it charged clients charges to purchase and wager on crypto, but additionally as a result of Bankman-Fried was thought-about the following tech whiz who was going to make use of FTX to launch a “tremendous app” for finance that might make crypto legit.
Earlier this yr, nonetheless, the whole factor collapsed, partly as a result of crypto itself is a rip-off, however largely as a result of FTX specifically was very a lot a rip-off, all the way down to the very fact senior members of the alternate had a chat group known as “Wirefraud”. Bankman-Fried, who was in The Bahamas partially to keep away from having to testify earlier than the Home Monetary Providers Committee (FTX additionally moved its headquarters to the Caribbean nation final yr), is now going through felony expenses in two nations, whereas his successor accountable for what’s left of FTX has already publicly mentioned the corporate spent ”$5 billion…shopping for a myriad of companies and investments, lots of which can be value solely a fraction of what was paid for them”, and that Bankman-Fried had engaged in “unacceptable administration practices.”