Bahamas –
Sam Bankman-Fried been so victorious as a cryptocurrency trading firm FTP extension his estate soared, until he once had a wealth of $32 billion or more than IDR500 trillion. Now he is caught by the police and thrown in a dungeon which is called disgusting.
As reported, Bankman was accused of misappropriating FTX client funds for sprees and investing in another company, Alameda Research. Currently, he is being held in a Bahamian prison that is known to be infested with rats and worms, so bad that wardens have labeled him “unfit for humans.”
To be exact, Bankman was held in Nassau’s only penitentiary, Fox Hill Jail to be exact, until at least Feb. 8 after he failed bail while fighting extradition to the United States. Bankman lived in the Bahamas.
quoted detikINET from the New York Post, the prison was the focus of a report last year by the US State Department on possible human rights violations, including violence and abuse by staff.
“Inmates dispose of human excrement in buckets,” says a government report of the prison, where up to six inmates are often crammed into a tiny cell.
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Sam Bankman Fried is imprisoned in this disgusting jail. Photo: Getty Images
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Conditions are harsh due to overcrowding, poor nutrition, inadequate sanitation and minimal medical care. The Guardian media once wrote that they saw the rats in person during a 2019 tour, with one guardian confirming that the rats were running up and down all day. In fact, he said, even dogs don’t deserve to live there.
So bad that some detainees have asked for extradition to the United States just to avoid it. In 2019, a pastor waived his right to fight extradition to Georgia, where he was eventually jailed for life for child rape, out of fear of being killed by a gang in a brutal Bahamian prison.
Many argue that Bankman, who has indicated he wants to fight extradition, should do the same, even if he faces a maximum of 115 years in prison if convicted of eight federal charges.
“There’s no benefit to him staying, he’s going to be sent to the United States anyway,” said Larry Levine, founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants, which advises those convicted of white-collar crimes.
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