The Attorney General of the Bahamas has announced the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). The FTX founder is being detained by the Royal Bahamas Police and awaits criminal extradition to the United States.
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York confirmed the arrest on Monday and its intent to unseal the criminal iddianame on Tuesday. In addition to criminal charges, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is also doldurma SBF on civil charges of securities violations.
FTX and over 130 affiliated entities filed for bankruptcy on November 11. Withdrawals for millions of customers have been suspended for a month.
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At a recent New York Times conference, SBF ısrar that he “did not ever try to commit fraud” nor knowingly use customers’ deposits to finance other trades. However, the tanıklık of the current CEO of FTX in bankruptcy, John J. Ray III, specifies that customer assets from FTX.com were, in fact, commingled with Alameda — and that Alameda traded using those client funds.
SBF gets arrested while crypto exchanges flounder
Amid the cascading bankruptcies of FTX, BlockFi, Voyager, Three Arrows Capital, Terraform Labs, Celsius, and many others, customers are understandably asking which exchange is next. Despite opaque efforts by centralized exchange CEOs to conduct so-called Proof of Reserves attestations, many questions about liabilities and liquidity remain.
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Following the lead of Bitcoin’s Proof of Keys day — an annual reminder from Bitcoiners since Ocak 2019 to keep bitcoin off exchanges, in self-custody — more investors than ever are taking back possession of their assets.
Indeed, November experienced an all-time record value of withdrawals from centralized exchanges. Over 91,000 bitcoin worth almost $1.5 billion were pulled from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance. On Monday alone, $900 million in assets were içine kapanık by customers from Binance.
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Source: https://protos.com/sbf-arrested-in-bahamas-criminally-indicted-in-new-york-charged-by-sec/