FTX: Court denies SBF Bail

The founder and former CEO of the now insolvent Crypto exchange, Sam Banknan Fried, has been denied bail by the presiding Decide of the Bahaman Justice of the Peace Court docket the place SBF is being tried. The denial was on the grounds that Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail request was as a result of he posed a “flight danger.”

The Bahaman Justice of the Peace Court docket, presided on by Decide Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, has ordered the remand of SBF within the nation’s correctional facility until the eighth of February 2023, when the extradition listening to might be continued.

This injunction was made after SBF’s lawyer had pleaded with the court docket to contemplate releasing him on a $250,000 bail. He additional argued that bail is critical for SBF to have the ability to monitor his well being, hold to his vegan weight loss plan and take his routine medicine. One among his drugs is Zyrtec, an over-the-counter allergy medicine, Emsam patches which SBF claims to make use of for his despair and Adderall.

The prosecuting counsel argued that granting Bankman-Fried bail would violate the prevailing extradition agreement with the US, which requires all defendants to be held in custody pending the extradition trial. SBF additionally revealed to the court docket that he wouldn’t defer his proper to combat the extradition try, hinting that he’ll try to stay within the Bahamas.

SBF will not be a flight danger

Debunking the flight danger declare, Jerome Roberts, SBF’s lawyer, argued that his shopper posed no flight danger mentioning that he owned properties within the Bahamas, had had his passport with him for about three weeks earlier than his detention on Monday, and will have bolted if he wished to.

Roberts additionally argued that as an alternative of denying his shopper bail, the court docket might order using digital monitoring units that may monitor the motion of this shopper and can curtail his motion.

Roberts was rebuffed by Decide Ferguson-Pratt, who asserted that somebody who was decided might discover a technique to depart the nation.

SBF’s arrest

SBF bought arrested on Monday night after the Royal Bahamas Police Pressure was knowledgeable of a secret indictment by American prosecutors. Earlier on Tuesday, the Southern District of New York U.S. The Lawyer’s Workplace unveiled the indictment, revealing that authorities accused the previous FTX CEO of wire fraud, conspiracy to launder cash, and marketing campaign finance violations, amongst different issues.

The US Lawyer, Damian Williams, throughout a press conference, said that upon the collapse of FTX, which resulted within the lack of buyer property, the Division of Justice had teamed up with the FBI and the Safety Alternate Fee to evaluate the state of affairs and “to start the method of searching for justice.” He additional revealed that the workforce has “…unsealed an eight-count indictment charging Samuel Bankman-Fried, FTX’s founder, with a collection of interrelated fraud schemes that contributed to FTX’s collapse.”

Along with the indictment of SBF by a grand jury within the US final Friday, which led to his arrest, the SEC and CFTC filed a lawsuit in opposition to Bankman-Fried for alleged securities and commodities fraud.

Investigations into Bankman-Fried and FTX are being performed on each a civil and felony stage by Bahamas authorities officers.

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