"fugitive" assumes he is/was 'running from the law', which I don't believe he is/was.
> There was no warrant out for his arrest until now.
I think there was, if not in the United States then in the Bahamas. From https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-founder-samuel-bankman-frie...:
> FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. filed criminal charges that it expects to unseal Tuesday morning, the authorities in the two countries said Monday evening.