UK Sentences Woman to Prison for Laundering Bitcoin After Police Seize 61K BTC
A woman has been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for laundering bitcoin tied to a £5 billion fraud in China. Authorities seized over 61,000 bitcoin during their investigation, now worth over $4 billion. The wom...
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