FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder Gary Wang and director of engineering Nishad Singh are understood to be within the Bahamas and are “underneath supervision” by the native authorities.
The supply aware of the matter advised Cointelegraph that the three former FTX executives, in addition to Alameda Analysis CEO Caroline Ellison, are searching for methods to flee to Dubai, which “would not have any extradition treaties” — doubtless in reference to the USA.
“Proper now three of them, Sam, Gary, and Nishad are underneath supervision within the Bahamas. Which suggests it will likely be exhausting for them to depart,” a supply aware of the matter advised Cointelegraph.
“I simply bought phrase that they have been making an attempt to get a technique to get to Dubai which doesn’t have an extradition treaty.”
The supply has additionally revealed that Ellison is presently in Hong Kong, “so she may be capable of get to Dubai.”
An identical concept was mentioned as a part of a 16-hour-long Twitter Area hosted by Mario Nawfal, with a visitor speaker claiming “trusted sources” have witnessed Bankman-Fried “in a locked area” with authorities in Albany Tower — a luxurious resort positioned in New Windfall in The Bahamas.
An unverified rumor additionally means that Bankman-Fried is presently joined by his father, Joseph Bankman.
Rumors that Bankman-Fried had been arrested on the tarmac at The Bahamas Airport made the rounds on Nov. 10 with proof suggesting that Bankman-Fried’s personal jet had been grounded for 40-minutes whereas on the best way to Miami from Nassau.
On Nov. 12, rumors then pointed to Bankman-Fried having landed in Buenos Aires within the early hours of the day, after Twitter customers tracked the coordinates of his personal jet utilizing the flight monitoring web site ADS-B Trade.
Later within the day, Bankman-Fried in a textual content message to Reuters denied hypothesis that he had fled to Argentina, claiming that he was nonetheless within the Bahamas.
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The previous FTX CEO is on the middle of one of many trade’s greatest scandals.
A report from The Wall Road Journal on Nov. 9 instructed that the U.S. Division of Justice and the Securities and Trade Fee are investigating the collapse of the crypto trade.
The Division of Monetary Safety and Innovation (DFPI) within the state of California introduced on Nov. 10 that it’ll open up an investigation as to the “obvious failure” of the trade.
Roughly 130 firms within the FTX Group, together with FTX Buying and selling, FTX US, and Alameda Analysis began chapter proceedings on Nov. 11.
