Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed voluntarily to his extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with defrauding customers of his cryptocurrency exchange company, FTX, a person familiar with the matter confirmed Monday.
The decision was confirmed after a chaotic and confusing morning in court where the embattled former chief executive appeared and was expected to reverse his initial decision to fight extradition to the United States where he has been charged with one of the biggest frauds in American history.
But the session was abruptly adjourned, some 10 minutes after it began, after Jerone Roberts, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried said that he was “shocked” to find that his client was in court. Roberts said he was on his way to prison to speak with him when he learned he was in court, and decried that the proceedings were moving “prematurely” and without him taking “any part in it.”
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