Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, will be extradited to the United States. These release reports Nassau GuardReferring to the office of the Attorney General of the Bahamas.
“Bankman-Freed will leave the Bahamas tonight for the United States,” the office said in a statement.
On December 13, it was learned who the former chairman of FTX was. arrested In the Bahamas at the request of the United States. The man was detained in the Bahamas based on a classified indictment prepared by the Southern District Attorney’s Office of New York.
Later the Financial Times newspaper WroteInvestors have withdrawn nearly $1.5 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. This happened against the backdrop of traders’ fears of a possible investigation into the company due to the collapse of another crypto exchange, FTX.
The reason for the growing alarming mood of traders was the arrest of FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried, who was accused of fraud in the United States following the bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency exchange.