'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud

Sam Bankman-Fried, who once ran one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering at the end of a month-long trial in New York.

The jury delivered its verdict after just a few hours of deliberations.

It concludes a stunning fall from grace for the 31-year-old former billionaire and one of the most public faces of the crypto industry.

Bankman-Fried was arrested last year after his firm, FTX, went bankrupt.

He now faces decades in prison. read more