山姆·班克曼·弗里德据巴哈马皇家警察部队称，加密货币巨头FTX和交易公司Alameda Research四面楚歌的前首席执行官周一在巴哈马被捕，此前纽约州联邦检察官提出了密封起诉书中包含的刑事指控。
纽约南区联邦检察官达米安·威廉姆斯(Damian Williams)表示，具体的指控预计将于周二公布。
威廉姆斯在一份声明中说:“今天晚上早些时候，巴哈马当局应美国政府的请求，根据美国纽约南区检察官办公室提交的密封起诉书，逮捕了塞缪尔·班克曼-弗里德。我们预计将在早上启封起诉书，届时将有更多的话要说。”
一位熟悉指控的消息人士告诉ABC新闻，在FTX申请320亿美元破产一个月后，班克曼-弗里德面临多项欺诈指控。
巴哈马总检察长办公室表示，逮捕“是在收到美国的正式通知后，美国已对SBF提出刑事指控，并可能要求引渡他”。
周二早上，班克曼-弗里德将出现在巴哈马拿骚的一个法庭上，随后他将被转移到纽约接受起诉。周一晚上，引渡他的具体时间还不清楚。他也将于周二出现在国会面前。
消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，自FTX破产以来，纽约南区的联邦检察官一直在关注班克曼-弗里德。
南区拒绝对逮捕发表评论。
美国证券交易委员会(u . s . Securities and Exchange Commission)表示，它“已授权对他违反证券法的行为提起单独指控，这些指控将于明天在SDNY公开提起。”
作为对逮捕声明的回应，巴哈马总理菲利普·戴维斯说:“巴哈马和美国在追究所有与FTX有关的可能背叛公众信任和违反法律的个人的责任方面有着共同的利益。”
“虽然美国正在对SBF个人提出刑事指控，但巴哈马将继续对FTX的崩溃进行自己的监管和刑事调查，并继续与美国和其他地方的执法和监管伙伴合作，”他补充说。
曾经是加密宠儿的FTX在竞争对手加密货币交易所宣布退出收购计划后，于11月申请破产保护。
Bankman-Fried原定于周二在国会出庭，在众议院金融服务委员会题为“调查FTX的崩溃，第一部分”的听证会上作证该委员会主席、众议员玛克辛·沃特斯(Maxine Waters)在周一晚上的一份声明中表示，听到逮捕的消息，她感到“惊讶”。
“虽然我对我们明天无法听取班克曼-弗里德先生的意见感到失望，但我们仍然致力于弄清事情的真相，委员会期待着明天听取约翰·雷三世先生的意见，开始我们的调查，”她补充说。
指导公司度过破产程序的FTX新任首席执行官约翰·雷仍有望出庭作证。
班克曼-弗里德在一系列推文中表示，在最初拒绝委员会的要求后，他“愿意作证”。
“我仍然无法访问我的大部分数据，无论是专业数据还是个人数据。因此，我能说的是有限的，我不会像自己希望的那样提供帮助，”班克曼-弗里德写道。“但由于委员会仍然认为这将是有用的，我愿意在13日作证。”
班克曼-弗里德在接受ABC新闻的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯采访时否认他知道“有任何不当使用客户资金的行为。”
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas, prosecutor says
Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled former CEO of cryptocurrency giant FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was arrested Monday in the Bahamas after federal prosecutors in New York filed criminal charges contained in a sealed indictment, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
The specific charges are expected to be unsealed Tuesday, according to Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
In a statement, Williams said: "Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time."
A source familiar with the charges told ABC News that Bankman-Fried is facing a multi-count fraud indictment that comes one month after FTX filed a $32 billion bankruptcy.
The arrest "followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition," the Bahamas Attorney General's Office said.
Bankman-Fried is due to appear in a courtroom in Nassau, Bahamas, Tuesday morning before his eventual transfer to New York for prosecution. The exact timing of his extradition was not clear Monday night. He was also due to appear before Congress on Tuesday.
Since the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have been looking at Bankman-Fried, sources have told ABC News.
The Southern District declined to comment on the arrest.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it "has authorized separate charges relating to his violations of securities laws, to be filed publicly tomorrow in SDNY."
In response to the arrest announcement, Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis said, “The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law."
"While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, the Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere," he added.
FTX, once a crypto darling, filed for bankruptcy protection in November after a rival cryptocurrency exchange announced it was backing out of a plan to acquire it.
Bankman-Fried had been scheduled to appear before Congress Tuesday to testify before the House Financial Services Committee in a hearing titled "Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part 1." Rep. Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the committee, said in a statement Monday night that she was "surprised" to hear of the arrest.
"While I am disappointed that we will not be able to hear from Mr. Bankman-Fried tomorrow, we remain committed to getting to the bottom of what happened, and the committee looks forward to beginning our investigation by hearing from Mr. John Ray III tomorrow," she added.
John Ray, FTX's new CEO guiding the company through bankruptcy proceedings, is still expected to testify.
Bankman-Fried, in a series of tweets, had said he's "willing to testify" after initially resisting the committee's request.
"I still do not have access to much of my data -- professional or personal. So there is a limit to what I will be able to say, and I won't be as helpful as I'd like," Bankman-Fried wrote. "But as the committee still thinks it would be useful, I am willing to testify on the 13th."
Bankman-Fried, in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, denied that he knew "that there was any improper use of customer funds."
