#FTXScamAlert #FTX.Trading.Ltd Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, has been charged with paying $40 million in bribes to Chinese officials. The bribes were meant to unfreeze $1 billion in cryptocurrency assets linked to his trading company, Alameda Research. This brings the total number of charges against him to 13. The bribes were allegedly paid in 2021 after legal efforts to recover the funds failed. Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas in December and later brought to the U.S. He is currently out on a $250 million bond and is staying with his parents in California. He has pleaded not guilty to previous charges, including defrauding investors. His court appearance for this new charge is set for Thursday.