• The former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been imprisoned.
• His arrest took place in the Bahamas.
• According to Forbes, his net worth was estimated to be $26.5 billion a year ago.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was detained on Monday in the Bahamas at the US government's request.

The ex-CEO was set to testify under oath regarding the crypto exchange's midnight collapse before a US Congress hearing the day before his arrest, which took place on the eve of that appearance. Additionally, a number of federal agencies are looking into the management of customer cash when he was in charge at the exchange. He was detained in connection with several financial violations of US law, which are also offences against Commonwealth of The Bahamas statutes, according to a statement from the Bahamas Police.

 Without incident, Bankman-Fried was taken into jail, and on Tuesday he will appear in Nassau's Magistrate Court. The 30-year-old businessman gained enormous personal riches through the operation of FTX, long regarded as one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, and his net worth was estimated at $26.5 billion by Forbes a year ago. 

One of the top cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, FTX was founded in 2019 and has its headquarters in The Bahamas. As traders hurried to remove $6 billion from the platform in just 72 hours, the exchange struggled to find money to prevent collapse and eventually filed for bankruptcy on November 11. Additionally, the US cryptocurrency investors sued Bankman-Fried on the grounds that he and numerous celebrities who promoted FTX used misleading tactics, causing the investors to lose $11 billion.

Interestingly, according to a number of publications, Bankman-parents Fried's and senior FTX employees bought approximately 19 homes in the Bahamas for around $121 million.