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Additional charges levied against Sam Bankman-Fried successful the U.S. look an other delay, aft a Tuesday Bahamas Supreme Court judgement allowed the FTX laminitis to judicially reappraisal the presumption of his extradition from the Caribbean.
Bankman-Fried has been nether the ineligible spotlight aft the illness of his crypto speech successful November. After primitively seeking his extradition based connected charges of ligament fraud and wealth laundering, U.S. prosecutors person subsequently asked for much charges to beryllium added including bank fraud and bribery.
Bankman-Fried has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges and has moved to dismiss galore of them – successful peculiar arguing that helium should person the close to equine a ineligible situation earlier the Bahamas agrees to adhd extras to the complaint sheet.
“Leave is granted to the claimant to commence proceedings for judicial review,” Bahamas Supreme Court Judge Loren Klein said connected Tuesday. Klein's comments favour Bankman-Fried's bid to contention the presumption taken by the Bahamas curate and Attorney General. “All of the grounds precocious by the claimants disclose arguable claims with a existent imaginable of success.”
Klein said that the Bahamas authorities cannot adhd the further offenses until that ineligible process has finished. The Bahamas authorities had antecedently argued the contented of consenting to the U.S. petition was a specified substance betwixt sovereign states. Klein besides added that the reappraisal should instrumentality spot “in an expedited manner,” though said helium didn’t privation to pre-empt its findings.
A consequent Tuesday filing, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Mark Cohen said helium “intends to record an exertion for judicial reappraisal arsenic directed by the Supreme Court and to proceed pursuing his ineligible rights successful The Bahamas.”
Cohen has antecedently warned that ineligible measures successful the Bahamas could instrumentality “months oregon years,” pushing them beyond the planned October U.S. proceedings date, oregon meaning helium doesn’t person capable clip to hole a defence to the other charges.
Edited by Parikshit Mishra.
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