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- Prosecutors say SBF's lawyers declined a request for a Ukraine-based FTX customer to testify remotely.
- The customer lost a "large portion" of his life savings from FTX's collapse, they said.
- And he can't testify in person because of a wartime law stopping men from leaving the country.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers declined a request from prosecutors to allow a Ukraine-based FTX victim to testify remotely at his trial, which is due to start on Tuesday.
Prosecutors submitted a court filing to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Saturday to appeal the opposition and allow two-way video conferencing because most of FTX's customers and victims are based abroad.