Sam Bankman-Fried The Founder of Crypto Firm FTX Arrested in Bahamas

The Bahamas attorney general’s office on Monday announced the arrest of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried pending extradition to the United States, weeks after the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams confirmed the arrest at the request of the U.S. government in a statement on Twitter. “Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY,” Williams said, referring to the Southern District of New York. “We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that…