By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried must be allowed whereas on bail to have a flip telephone with no web functionality and a fundamental laptop computer with restricted features, however be forbidden from utilizing different digital communication units, the U.S. Division of Justice mentioned.

The proposal to restrict the indicted FTX cryptocurrency alternate founder’s communications was filed late on Friday in Manhattan federal court docket, on behalf of the federal government and Bankman-Fried’s protection workforce.

It requires approval by U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan, who oversees the case.

Kaplan had signaled at a Feb. 16 listening to that he may jail the 30-year-old Bankman-Fried for testing the bounds of his $250 million bail bundle by speaking in ways in which couldn’t be monitored.

The choose mentioned he didn’t wish to set Bankman-Fried “unfastened on this backyard of digital units,” following accusations that Bankman-Fried tried to contact doable authorities witnesses and used a digital personal community to look at soccer.

Bankman-Fried pleaded not responsible after prosecutors mentioned he stole billions of {dollars} of FTX buyer funds to plug losses at his Alameda Analysis hedge fund. He faces 12 felony expenses underneath an indictment made public on Feb. 23.

The proposed flip telephone or different non-smartphone for Bankman-Fried can be restricted to voice calls and SMS textual content messages.

Laptop computer web use can be restricted to specified digital personal networks, 23 web sites for private use overlaying information, together with Reuters, sports activities and meals supply, and web sites to assist Bankman-Fried put together for his scheduled Oct. 2 trial.

Bankman-Fried resides underneath home arrest along with his dad and mom, each Stanford Regulation College professors, in Palo Alto, California.

The dad and mom agreed to submit sworn affidavits that they might not deliver different digital units into their house or let their son use theirs.

In addition they agreed that every system would carry software program that periodically takes movies or images of the consumer, which court docket officers can be allowed to evaluate, the letter mentioned.

Bankman-Fried’s legal professionals didn’t instantly reply on Saturday to requests for remark.