The founders of the portfolio must abandon $ 237 million and pay a fine of $ 400,000, the sentences which will be issued on November 6, and the federal directives grant a prison sentence of up to 60 months.
The founders of Bitcoin-BTC can face Samurai Wallet, a 5-year prison sentence after adopting the guilt of the accusations against them, linked to the exploitation of a money transfer service without license.
Following the guilt recognition agreement that took place on Wednesday, the founders avoided the accusation of laundering the most dangerous money, which could have imprisoned up to 20 years. The documents in the case indicate that William Lonergan Hill and Keonne Rodriguez – who previously denied these accusations – changed their statements to the Federal Court of the South New York State region. Under the agreement, the United States Ministry of Justice abandoned the accusation of money laundering and maintained only the accusation of exploitation of an activity to transfer money without obtaining a previous license, whose sentences reach a maximum of 5 years of imprisonment.
@Samouraiwallet The founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill should cancel their advocacy to “guilty” in a case of confidentiality of cryptography at high prefile, according to court documents from New York.#Samouraiwallet #Cryptomixers https://t.co/8ahvgjkeesf
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The founders of Samurai Wallet are accused of promoting the platform as a money laundering tool
The United States Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office ended the activities of the Samurai portfolio tool and stopped its founders in 2024, claiming that the tool allowed criminals to hide money illegally acquired with the knowledge of the founders of this; The applicants also indicated that the platform had facilitated the whitening of more than $ 100 million and that it was marketed as a money laundering tool and to avoid large-scale sanctions.
It should be noted that the Samurai portfolio tool was famous for being a popular app to mix chipto transactions and allow its users to hide their transactions, because these applications generally mix several transactions together, which makes it difficult to monitor the sales on the blockchain public networks.
Although privacy defenders believe that mixing services are important tools to avoid the identification of financial transaction authors, these services have long been linked to the American authorities with internet crimes and stolen money, and this conviction is very important for federal prosecutors who continue to target developers of the tools of the confidentiality crèche.
Update: The monetary judgment of Rodriguez de Samurai Wallet has just filed – Yes, a judgment of 237 million dollars (shared with Hill) – $ 6.4 million due to the date of November 6. (Hill to be sex on November 7). History and extra: pic.twitter.com/qjvgjnsitn
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The problem leads to a controversy on the budget between the private life of the user and the police
The Crapeto mixing services have been surmounted by solid audit campaigns, the Roman storm – a founder of Tornado Cash – this week, is a case that the digital currency sector follows closely. For its part, the American authorities prohibited citizens using the Tornado cash tool in 2022, because the Blockchain Ethereum protocol was used to wash billions of dollars from illegal money.
The founders of the Samurai portfolio are also faced with exorbitant financial fines, as the approval agreement provides for their renunciation of $ 237 million, as well as a fine of $ 400,000. The date of the decision was set – as we indicated – on November 6, and the federal directives allow a prison sentence of up to 60 months.
The case has aroused generalized controversy on the future of confidentiality tools linked to the CRIPTO sector, while applicants indicate that criminals often use these tools for illegal purposes. Consequently, the result of the question of the Samurai tool can be encouraged to follow similar procedures in other cases, while Hill and Rodriguez await the publication of their decision, the sector pursues the broader influence of this issue with great interest.
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