US prosecutors have widened their criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried, adding new charges and detailing a “series of systems and schemes” through which they allege the FTX founder siphoned off billions of dollars from customer deposits.
The updated indictment, released on Thursday morning, added charges including securities fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. That brought the total number of criminal counts against the former billionaire to 12.
Bankman-Fried was originally charged with eight criminal counts in December 2022 and was extradited from his home in the Bahamas soon afterwards. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the original charges.