NEW YORK — Sam Bankman-Fried won a Bahamian court order temporarily blocking that nation’s government from consenting to charges that were added to his U.S. indictment after the FTX co-founder’s December extradition to New York.
Bankman-Fried has argued in Manhattan federal court that bribery, campaign finance and other counts added in March and February must be dismissed because they were not included in his agreement to return from the Bahamas to face U.S. charges. New York federal prosecutors have said they can proceed with the new charges with the Bahamian attorney general’s consent, but Bankman-Fried moved to block that with a separate action filed there.
Bahamian Justice Loren Klein on Tuesday ruled in Bankman-Fried’s favor, saying he was entitled to be heard in a court proceeding on whether the attorney general should consent to the new U.S. charges. Denying him that would be “procedurally unfair,” the judge said.
