I don't think there's any money laundering going on in this case (at least based on the info from the article), that said though - Liberty Reserve founders were

I don't think there's any money laundering going on in this case (at least based on the info from the article), that said though - Liberty Reserve founders were charged with money laundering even though their "liberty reserve dollars" were completely virtual and, unlike btc, not used outside of their own private ecosystem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve