Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrested

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas after US authorities laid criminal charges.

The arrest comes four weeks after the cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy.

Sky News Business Reporter Ed Boyd said Mr Bankman-Fried has been “very vocal” and speaking to the media in the weeks since his company declared it was bankrupt on November 11.

“Even on the 30th of November he did a big interview with The New York Times, talking about how he didn’t intend to commit fraud,” Mr Boyd said.

“He’s clearly been trying to get on the front foot in the past four weeks since his company went into bankruptcy.”

[pedrothemexican]

New York Times interview audience applauded this guy. Says all we need to know.

[TheDisgruntledGranny]

The politicians here in the US are petrified what SBF is going to say about the donations he has given them.. I'll be surprised if he even gets to the US....

[elsathedemonwolf]

There should be more arrests for the others involved 🎉

[heavyd]

Funny how US media hasn't reported this yet.

[dustinmiller]

Steal 32 BILLION and they are like "Maybe we should arrest this guy".
To everyone else they're like "Explain this six hundred dollars" (of your own money)

[emporergrimes]

They waited a month which allowed him
and his people to cover it up. In the Real world people get arrested within the first 30 minutes

[charlottemajewski]

I have to go to an Australian news site to get current uncensored news about American politics.

[mth]

Why haven't the banksters who sold sub-prime mortgage junk from 2008 also been arrested?

[DebbieOnTheSpot]

They've investigated themselves and found Bankman Fried is in fact the scapegoat.

[fuzzypanda]

I'm sure he's pissed off about this. Hopefully he kept the contract that says if you donate X amount of money to the dems, you won't get in trouble no matter what you do.

[laurafulton]

Canada’s Minister of Finance is connected to this crime, through WEF, which stole money from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

[darrenneven]

Shock horror. A pity for all the soft spoken psychopaths out there. Way overdue!!!

[SteveDoesEverything]

Dems in the US.. “ Thanks for the billions in donations, now take the fall for us”

[jerryabram]

Hopefully a lot of his democrat cronies go down wit him

[KingKing-tzof]

The fact that he is still free is beyond understanding

[Bobotrucker]

I think he would be wise to publicly state he is in no way suicidal..

[andrewsouza]

Fried, Milken, Maydoff, Weinstein, Epstein……….as David Chapelle says “it’s just a coincidence.”

[coffeenow]

His mother and father resigned their positions at Stanford gearing up to defend him.

[AndrewMann]

There needs to be an investigation on why it took so long to make an arrest. I know we seem to be heading towards the status of a lawless nation with an unbelievable number of laws.

[all-srts]

Might be saying this prematurely but "Fried-Bankman didn't kill himself"