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Sam Bankman-Fried Takes Fight Over Federal Fraud Case to Bahamas

FTX founder wants to persuade the island nation that some U.S. charges violate the terms of his extradition

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried wants to make his case to the Bahamas that some of the U.S. fraud charges he faces over the collapse of the crypto-exchange violate the terms of his extradition from the island nation.

U.S. prosecutors need consent from the Bahamas to proceed with charges that were added after Bankman-Fried was transferred to U.S. custody. Bankman-Fried on Tuesday persuaded a Bahamian court to temporarily block the nation’s attorney general from making a decision on that consent for now. Bankman-Fried is seeking an opportunity to make arguments in the Bahamas that some of the charges are improper.

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