US charges FTX’s Bankman-Fried with paying US$40 mil Chinese bribe

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US charges FTX’s Bankman-Fried with paying US$40 mil Chinese bribe

NEW YORK: US prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of paying a US$40 million bribe to Chinese officials so they would unfreeze his hedge fund’s accounts.

The new bribery conspiracy charge adds the pressure on the 31-year-old former billionaire, who now faces a 13-count indictment over the November collapse of FTX.

Prosecutors had previously accused Bankman-Fried of stealing billions of dollars in customer funds to plug losses at his Alameda Research hedge fund, and orchestrating an illegal campaign donation scheme to buy influence in Washington, DC.

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