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Bankman-Fried, disgraced former CEO of FTX crypto exchange, arrested in Bahamas

The arrest was made at the request of the U.S. government, based on a sealed indictment from the Southern District of New York. The indictment is expected to be unsealed on Tuesday.
Sam Bankman-Fried attends via video call during the 2022 Forbes Iconoclast Summit at New York Historical Society on November 03, 2022. One week and one day later, his FTX empire had filed for bankruptcy
Updated December 12, 2022 at 8:30 PM ET

Sam Bankman-Fried, the notorious former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, has been arrested in the Bahamas, the office of the attorney general of The Bahamassaid on Monday night.

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