俄亥俄州男子因營運暗網搜尋引擎和加密貨幣洗錢服務被判處三年監禁

41 歲的拉里·迪恩·哈蒙(Larry Dean Harmon) 於2014 年4 月創立了Grams。或不倒翁服務，可以匯集和交換人們的比特幣，以混淆原始來源

An Ohio man who ran the Grams dark-web search engine and the Helix cryptocurrency money-laundering service has been sentenced to three years in prison.

一名經營 Grams 暗網搜尋引擎和 Helix 加密貨幣洗錢服務的俄亥俄州男子被判處三年監禁。

Larry Dean Harmon, 41, set up Grams in April 2014. Three months later he also set up on the dark web Helix, a so-called mixer or tumbler service that pools and swaps people's Bitcoins to obfuscate the original sources, according to court documents. You put your BTC into Helix and you get the equivalent amount of other people's out.

41 歲的拉里·迪恩·哈蒙(Larry Dean Harmon) 於2014 年4 月創立了Grams。所謂的混合器​​或不倒翁服務，可以匯集和交換人們的比特幣，以混淆原始來源。你把你的 BTC 存入 Helix，然後你就可以得到等量的其他人的 BTC。

Over three years of operation, Harmon laundered 354,468 bitcoins (around $311 million at the time, about $32 billion these days) and charged a possible 2.5 percent fee for transactions.

在三年的營運過程中，Harmon 洗白了 354,468 枚比特幣（當時約為 3.11 億美元，現在約為 320 億美元），並可能收取 2.5% 的交易費用。

His assets, including a Trezor crypto wallet, were seized, and he faced charges that could put him in prison for over 20 years.

他的資產（包括 Trezor 加密錢包）被沒收，他面臨的指控可能會讓他入獄 20 多年。

However, his younger brother Gary managed to access a seized cryptocurrency storage device using his brother's credentials and stole more than 712 Bitcoin. He then rather foolishly went on a spending spree, being photographed in a bath full of money and buying a luxury condo in Cleveland. In 2023 he was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for the theft.

然而，他的弟弟加里（Gary）設法使用其兄弟的憑證訪問了被扣押的加密貨幣儲存設備，並竊取了超過 712 個比特幣。然後，他相當愚蠢地開始了瘋狂消費，被拍到在裝滿金錢的浴室裡拍照，並在克利夫蘭購買了一套豪華公寓。 2023年，他因竊盜罪被判處四年零三個月監禁。

The elder Harmon pleaded guilty in August 2021, and agreed to the forfeiture of more than 4,400 Bitcoins (today worth $400,200,000) and other seized properties.

老哈蒙於 2021 年 8 月認罪，並同意沒收 4,400 多個比特幣（目前價值 400,200,000 美元）和其他被扣押的財產。

"Harmon admitted that he conspired with Darknet vendors to launder bitcoin generated through drug trafficking and other illegal activities," assistant director in charge Steven D’Antuono of the FBI’s Washington Field Office said at the time. That "guilty plea demonstrates the FBI’s commitment to infiltrate and shut down the cryptocurrency money-laundering networks that support cyber-criminal enterprises."

「哈蒙承認，他與暗網供應商合謀，對透過販毒和其他非法活動產生的比特幣進行洗錢，」聯邦調查局華盛頓外地辦公室的助理主任史蒂文·德安托諾當時表示。這一“認罪表明聯邦調查局致力於滲透並關閉支持網路犯罪企業的加密貨幣洗錢網絡。”

In addition to his time behind bars, Larry Harmon will be on probation for three years and also faces having to pay back a further $311,145,854, along with having to forfeit other seized cryptocurrencies, real estate, and monetary assets. He has already been fined $60 million by the US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

除了入獄外，拉里·哈蒙 (Larry Harmon) 還將被緩刑三年，還面臨著必須進一步償還 311,145,854 美元的情況，以及必須沒收其他被扣押的加密貨幣、房地產和貨幣資產。他已被美國財政部金融犯罪執法網絡罰款 6,000 萬美元。