UK convicts 2 foreigners in record crypto laundering case
A man and woman have been convicted by a United Kingdom court for their roles in a multibillion-pound fraudulent BTC scheme, after an investigation that resulted in the world’s largest seizure of digital assets to date, more than £5.5 billion ($7.4 billion).
The seizure followed a seven-year investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Economic Crime team into an international money laundering scheme. Launched in 2018 on the back of intelligence received about the transfer of criminal…