Well, no, not really. Sure they used many techniques, but because they branched their laundering, actually only one technique got defeated, which was to tumble

Well, no, not really. Sure they used many techniques, but because they branched their laundering, actually only one technique got defeated, which was to tumble the money through AlphaBay. And then, coincidentally, AlphaBay got owned and their servers were seized, and it doesn't seem that those coins were sent through any privacy coin, which is then very easy for the authorities to track, as anyone would have told you.