俄亥俄州男子因运营暗网搜索引擎和加密货币洗钱服务被判处三年监禁

41 岁的拉里·迪恩·哈蒙 (Larry Dean Harmon) 于 2014 年 4 月创立了 Grams。三个月后，他还在暗网​​上建立了 Helix，这是一项所谓的混合器或不倒翁服务，可以汇集和交换人们的比特币，以混淆原始来源

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.

一名运营 Grams 暗网搜索引擎和 Helix 加密货币洗钱服务的俄亥俄州男子被判处三年监禁。

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 岁的拉里·迪恩·哈蒙 (Larry Dean Harmon) 于 2014 年 4 月创立了 Grams。根据法庭文件，三个月后，他还在暗网​​上建立了 Helix，这是一项所谓的混合器或不倒翁服务，可以汇集和交换人们的比特币，以混淆原始来源。 。你把你的 BTC 存入 Helix，然后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.

在三年的运营过程中，Harmon 洗白了 354,468 枚比特币（当时约为 3.11 亿美元，现在约为 320 亿美元），并可能收取 2.5% 的交易费用。

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

他的资产（包括 Trezor 加密钱包）被没收，他面临的指控可能会让他入狱 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）设法使用其兄弟的凭据访问了被扣押的加密货币存储设备，并窃取了超过 712 个比特币。然后，他相当愚蠢地开始了疯狂消费，被拍到在装满金钱的浴室里拍照，并在克利夫兰购买了一套豪华公寓。 2023年，他因盗窃罪被判处四年零三个月监禁。

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.

老哈蒙于 2021 年 8 月认罪，并同意没收 4,400 多个比特币（目前价值 400,200,000 美元）和其他被扣押的财产。

"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."

“哈蒙承认，他与暗网供应商合谋对通过贩毒和其他非法活动产生的比特币进行洗钱，”联邦调查局华盛顿外地办公室的助理主任史蒂文·德安托诺当时表示。这一“认罪表明联邦调查局致力于渗透并关闭​​支持网络犯罪企业的加密货币洗钱网络。”

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.

除了入狱外，拉里·哈蒙 (Larry Harmon) 还将被缓刑三年，还面临着必须进一步偿还 311,145,854 美元的情况，以及必须没收其他被扣押的加密货币、房地产和货币资产。他已被美国财政部金融犯罪执法网络罚款 6000 万美元。