Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on Monday decided to agree to be extradited to the U.S. to face fraud charges, Reuters pranešė, citing his lawyers.
The report came several hours after one of Bankman-Fried’s lawyers told a judge at a hearing in the Bahamas that he wanted to see the indictment from the U.S. before consenting to be brought to the country. The New York Times subsequently pranešė that local defense lawyer Jerone Roberts said Bankman-Fried had agreed to the extradition voluntarily against “the strongest possible legal advice.”
“We as counsel will prepare the necessary documents to trigger the court,” the Times cited Roberts as saying; the paper cited sources as saying that Bankman-Fried had been planning on contesting the extradition but changed his mind over the weekend.
Reuters reported that Bankman-Fried departed the Monday hearing in Nassau in a black van marked “Corrections” and said he could be back in court later this week.
U.S. authorities last week charged Bankman-Fried a month after the crypto exchange he founded filed for bankruptcy protection, with an eight-count indictment from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York court accusing him of committing or conspiring to commit fraud on FTX’s customers and lenders, money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and violate campaign finance disclosure laws.
Dėmesio: Nuo 2021 m. buvęs „The Block“ generalinis direktorius ir daugumos savininkas Michaelas McCaffrey'us paėmė keletą paskolų iš įkūrėjo ir buvusio FTX bei „Alameda“ generalinio direktoriaus Samo Bankmano-Friedo. McCaffrey atsistatydino iš bendrovės 2022 m. gruodį, nes neatskleidė šių sandorių.
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