News > Sam Bankman-Fried flies to US after consenting to extradition, top FTX aides plead guilty
Sam Bankman-Fried flies to US after consenting to extradition, top FTX aides plead guilty
22/12/2022 10:22 AM | Click to read full article
The Bahamas ordered Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, to be extradited to the United States on Wednesday, where he will face charges of fraud in a New York court. At the time of filing this report, Bankman-Fried is reported aboard a plane flying from the Bahamas to the United States. According to a Manhattan court filing, FTX owed its 50 largest creditors almost $3.1 billion in credit.
