Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M
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An Ohio resident, Larry Dean Harmon, ran the Grams dark-web search engine and the Helix Bitcoin mixing service that pooled and swapped BTC to obfuscate illicit sources, laundering roughly 354,468 BTC over three years; he partnered with AlphaBay, was arrested in 2020, pleaded guilty in 2021, forfeited substantial cryptocurrency and assets, was fined by FinCEN, and has been sentenced to three years in prison plus probation and financial penalties.
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