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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Accused Of Bribing Chinese Officials With $40M In New Indictment

FTX logo and Bitcoin symbol are screened for illustration photo. Kraków, Poland on January 18, 2023. FTX collapsed in 2022 that lead to Sam Bankman-Fried's arrest in violation of US laws and security exchanges. BEATA ZAWRZEL/BENZINGA

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. 

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