The former CEO of the FTX exchange leaves preventive detention at his parents' house and will be behind bars.

For circumventing and violating the bans placed on him, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the failed bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was ordered out of provisional prison and will now be detained in a cell.

In a hearing held this Friday, August 11, SBF, as the controversial businessman is known, is accused of, among other things, using a virtual private network (VPN) to surf the Internet without being detected. This, despite the fact that communications with the outside world were prohibited.

Federal Judge in Manhattan, New York, Lewis A. Kaplan, asserted during the hearing that SBF used the VPN to watch a football game on an account that was not authorized. According to allegations, the accused subscribed from the Bahamas.

“And he used a VPN as if he were in the Bahamas, when he was in Palo Alto, California, and he could have seen it on public television,” the jurist said.

In addition to this violation, the judge accuses SBF of witness tampering, after having shown the press “part of the private writings” of Caroline Ellison, the former executive director of Alameda Research, a fundamental piece in the Sam Bankman emporium debacle. Fried.

Kaplan maintains that SBF showed Ellison's notes to a journalist, with the aim of intimidating her and the other former FTX executives, who acknowledged the guilt of their actions and are now on probation.

“The documents are partly personal and intimate. “They are personally oriented, not business oriented,” Judge Kaplan alleges.