By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Jared Higgs NASSAU (Reuters) – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has signed legal papers paving the way for his extradition from The Bahamas to the United States, where he faces fraud charges over the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse, a Bahamas official said on Tuesday. Doan Cleare, The Bahamas’ acting commissioner of Corrections, told Reuters the documents were signed around noon on Tuesday. A hearing in Bankman-Fried’s case will take place on Wednesday at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT), a court official told Reuters. Wednesday’s proceeding could set the stage for the 30-…