FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been charged with directing $US40 million ($60 million) in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business in a newly rewritten indictment.The charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, contained in the indictment unsealed overnight, raises to 13 the number of charges Bankman-Fried faces after he was arrested in the Bahamas in December and brought to the United States soon afterward.FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run. He has remained free on a $US250 million ($373 million) personal recognisance bond that lets him stay with his parents in Palo Alto, California.
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