New Delhi, May 6 -- In March this year, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the now defunct crypto exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on the back of fraud and conspiracy charges. In an interview over email to ABC News a few weeks later, he wrote: "It's most of what I think about each day."

It is certainly what many others think about as well. Prosecutors say conservative estimates of losses from this fraud stand at $8 billion for FTX customers, $1.7 billion for FTX investors, and $1.3 billion for Alameda lenders. Once the richest and most influential man in crypto, Fried or 'SBF' was the creator of the hugely successful crypto trading exchange FTX and the Alameda Research trading firm. His crypto empire came crashing down in Nov...