
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday revealed a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of conspiring to bribe Chinese government officials with $40 million in payments.
Bankman-Fried directed the payment to unfreeze accounts belonging to his hedge fund, Alameda Research, which held over $1 billion of cryptocurrency that Chinese authorities had frozen, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.