Helix operated this laundering system from 2014 to 2017. Only on August 18, 2021, Harmon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. However, Harmon was only recently sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell of the Federal court in ...

Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months for a money laundering conspiracy linked to a 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin theft.

A man whose 2016 hack of Bitfinex drained nearly 120,000 bitcoin from that cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison for a money laundering scheme that he and his wife pulled off to hide the swiped crypto.

An Ohio man who laundered more than $300 million of Bitcoin on behalf of drug traffickers and other criminals was sentenced to three years in prison, after a judge granted him leniency for helping the US prosecute other cryptocurrency cases.

Larry Harmon, the man behind the Helix cryptocurrency mixer, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of laundering over 350,000 Bitcoin, valued at more than $300 million at the time.

Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for laundering over $300 million in Bitcoin, primarily for darknet drug markets.