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It's an island. Tough to get off even if not arrested. I'm sure if he tried to get on a plane all kinds of "problems" would have appeared (computer not working, ...) If he tried a boat, "oh look, it's leaking oil, we can't let it leave and pollute the waters".

Bahamas will have absolutely not let him get out of their sight. They have so much egg on their face.

I can even see the titles if he left "Did he bribed Bahamas officials to look the other way?" ...

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It is an island, and it's not that hard to get on a boat and sail away. Carlos Ghosn was able to be smuggled out of Japan on an airplane while under house-arrest. I imagine Japan is much, MUCH, harder to be smuggled out of than the Bahamas :)

Surely he had enough money to order a private jet or yacht or both.

You still pass through passport control.

There was talk that he was followed around everywhere in Bahamas by the police.

Like I said, there are ways to keep someone on an island without arresting them. Especially in this case, what was he going to do, sue?

>You still pass through passport control.

On a boat? Usually not. Most people island hopping in the Caribbean definitely aren't going through any kind of passport controls.

Unless the cops were following him everywhere he went, Bahamas would be one of the easier places to escape.

How many of those other countries have people who lost money? What are the odds that some of the people he ripped off have very muscular friends who want to have a private chat about repayment timeframes? What are the odds that they know the kind of people you’d need to get fake ID or live undercover?

you don't need to pass through passport control to get on a boat. You can walk to any beach and get on a dingy that takes you to a larger boat.

He was being followed. The minute he boarded a boat the USCG would be enroute with a cutter to intradict and perform a thorough safety inspection in international waters, perfectly in line with their law enforement and maritime safety duties.

So, a seaplane then? SBF could presumably even afford to bring in a decent submarine, assuming he hadn't lost access to his money.

He could have just incognito slipped aboard a fishing vessel. Grease the right palms and his tails, “Could not believe he gave us the slip”

And this fishing vessal travels open ocean to another country advoiding their navy?

Why would the fishing vessel need to avoid a navy? You could also just switch to another boat at any time.

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