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US sentenced man to 3 years in prison for conducting illicit BTC exchange

US sentenced man to 3 years in prison for conducting illicit BTC exchange

Hugo Sergio Mejia had to spend three years in federal prison. He was accused of conducting illicit actions like money laundering, and he swapped at least thirteen mln USD in BTCs and fiat currencies.

Mejia created a firm involved in the sphere of digital assets, and he was swapping crypto to fiat from the middle of 2018 up to the middle of 2020.

He collected fees for these transfers but never tried to make his firm legal.

Moreover, he made several new firms conduct his criminal actions and financial transfers.

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