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Clicking through the "More on this story" link, we find > On Monday she was convicted of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement.
by yencabulator 2y ago
Clicking through the "More on this story" link, we find
> On Monday she was convicted of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement.
Which sounds like she was facilitating money laundering without holding any criminal property herself. For a more comprehensive explanation, see e.g. https://www.jmw.co.uk/blog/business-money-laundering/three-main-money-laundering-offences https://www.jmw.co.uk/blog/business-money-laundering/three-m...
It sounds like what the US often calls "conspiracy to ...".
- nextaccountic 2y agoDoes this mean she wasn't the owner of those £2B in bitcoins? So they didn't caught the billionaire in question, they caught someone that was working for him or her
- yencabulator 2y agoI think the article was pretty clear that the woman caught was a front for the other woman.
- nextaccountic 2y agoI didn't find it clear from either article that there was another "woman" behind the one that was caught (as opposed to any number of individuals of any gender)
- yencabulator 2y agoSorry, there was more info in the articles linked in the discussion. This one, in particular: https://archive.ph/mTPuL https://archive.ph/mTPuL from this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511214