“No questions”
An American man was sentenced to managing what general prosecutors called “any questions you do not ask.”
Richard Sterens, the Boston Federal Court judge, ruled on Trung Nagwin, from Danfars, Massachusetts, to a six -year prison, followed by three years from the supervision release, and ordered him to lose 1.5 million dollars, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Boston He said On May 22.
Prosecutors said that Ngwin runs an unlicensed company to arrange money called patriotism between September 2017 and October 2020, which used various techniques that he learned in an online cycle to evade powers.
As part of the training course, Najwin was taught how to hide his actual work from banks, exchange encryption and state authorities by disguising as a company for sale that accepted cash deposits, and has a list of imaginary suppliers, and avoids them in general using the phrase “bitcoin” wherever possible.
According to the public prosecutors, among the base of Naguin’s customers was many of the fraud victims who were deceived in converting the criticism to Bitcoin (BTC) by supernatural artists abroad, as well as a drug dealer who sent $ 250,000 in cash via 10 transactions in 2018.
The Ministry of Justice said that Ngawin has transferred more than a million dollars to Bitcoin and “intentionally failed” to register in the Fincen Financial Crime Network, despite its demand to do this under federal money laundering regulations.
Naguin also “failed to submit suspicious activity reports or currency transactions reports on any of these transactions, including cash transactions that exceed $ 10,000,” according to public prosecutors. Prosecutors said that Ngawin often met his employees personally to accept large cash amounts, which was arrested. May 2023 The indictment He said that during several meetings with secret law enforcement officers, before money and sent bitcoin in return, and took a little more than 5 % in the commission. Related to: Use of encryption in money laundering “much lower than” cash – US Treasury The indictment said that Ngwin used encrypted messaging applications and “technologies that made it difficult” to track his transactions in Bitcoin and dismantle cash deposits to smaller amounts over the successive days and in various branches of the bank itself to avoid notice by the authorities. Ngwin was accused of operating unlicensed money transfer work and two accusations of money laundering. he Appeal Not guilty of all charges in June 2023. Jury convicted In November on charges of business that is not licensed to capture money, and on only one of the money laundering fees, and he found it not guilty of the charge of laundering separate funds. magazine: The exploitation of the favorite Lazaros group – cRypto Hacks AnalysisSecret police men of the bite Naguin