According to Mr. Williams, Samuel Bankman-Fried is currently in FBI custody and is leaving the country. As soon as possible, he will be taken to the Southern District of New York, where he will be hauled before a judge.

If you participated in wrongdoing at FTX or Alameda, now is the moment to get ahead of it, he continued. Our patience is wearing thin as we advance quickly.

Ms. Ellison and Mr. Wang are the targets of separate complaints from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Mr. Bankman-Fried was additionally accused last week with “orchestrating a conspiracy to defraud stock holders in FTX.” The SEC claimed that the former “King Of Crypto” had built a “house of cards on a foundation of lies.”

In accordance with the accusations, Mr. Bankman-Fried, Ms. Ellison, and Mr. Wang were “active participants in a scheme to conceal material information from FTX investors, including through Mr. Bankman-Fried and Ms. Ellison’s efforts to artificially prop up the value of FTX, which served as collateral for undisclosed loans that Alameda took out from FTX in accordance with its undisclosed, and virtually unlimited, line of credit,” says

By secretly transferring the client funds of FTX into the books of Alameda, the defendants “obscured the very real risks that FTX’s investors and customers faced.”

Many people are unable to withdraw money as a result of FTX’s bankruptcy filing.

According to a court document, FTX owes more than $3.1 billion (£2.5 billion) to its 50 top debtors.

One of the most significant allegations is that Mr. Bankman-Fried used billions of dollars in client funds to support Alameda.

Last week, Mr. Williams alleged that Mr. Bankman-Fried had been accused of committing one of the greatest scams in US history.