美国男子经营“无问题”现金对 - 比蒂币转换服务已被判处六年徒刑

一名美国男子经营着检察官所说的“无问题”现金对 - 比蒂币转换服务已被判处六年徒刑，并被命令交出数百万美元。

A US man operating what prosecutors called a “no questions asked” cash-to-Bitcoin conversion service has been sentenced to six years behind bars and was ordered to hand over millions of dollars.

一名美国男子经营着检察官所说的“无问题”现金对 - 比蒂币转换服务已被判处六年徒刑，并被命令交出数百万美元。

Judge Richard Stearns of Boston federal court sentenced Trung Nguyen, from Danvers, Massachusetts, to six years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered him to forfeit $1.5 million, the Boston US Attorney’s Office said on May 22.

波士顿美国检察官办公室说，波士顿联邦法院的理查德·斯特恩斯（Richard Stearns）判处马萨诸塞州丹佛斯（Danvers）的Trung Nguyen判处六年监禁，然后判处三年监督，并命令他没收150万美元。

Prosecutors said Nguyen ran an unlicensed money-transmitting business called National Vending between September 2017 and October 2020, which used various techniques he learned in an online course to evade authorities.

检察官说，Nguyen在2017年9月至2020年10月之间经营着一家名为National Vending的无证货币传输业务，该业务使用了他在在线课程中学到的各种技术来逃避当局。

As part of the course, Nguyen was taught how to conceal his actual business from banks, crypto exchanges and state authorities by masquerading as a vending machine company that accepted cash deposits, had a list of fictional suppliers, and generally avoided using the phrase “Bitcoin” where possible.

作为课程的一部分，Nguyen被教导如何通过伪装成一个自动售货机公司，将其实际业务掩盖其实际业务，加密交易所和州当局，该公司接受现金存款，有虚构的供应商清单，并且通常避免使用“比特币”使用“比特币”。

Among Nguyen’s customer base were several scam victims who were tricked by con artists overseas into converting cash into Bitcoin (BTC), as well as a drug dealer who sent $250,000 in cash across 10 transactions in 2018, according to prosecutors.

检察官称，在Nguyen的客户群中有几名骗局受害者被海外骗子欺骗，将现金转换为比特币（BTC），以及一名毒品交易商，他们在2018年在10笔交易中派出了25万美元的现金。

The Justice Department said Nguyen converted more than $1 million to Bitcoin and “purposely failed” to register with the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) despite being required to do so under federal Anti-Money Laundering regulations.

司法部表示，Nguyen向比特币转变了超过100万美元，“故意失败”以在财政部的金融犯罪执法网络（FINCEN）进行注册，尽管根据联邦反货币洗钱法规必须这样做。

Nguyen also “failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports or Currency Transaction Reports on any of these transactions, including cash transactions of more than $10,000,” according to prosecutors.

检察官说，Nguyen还“未能就这些交易中的任何一项提交可疑活动报告或货币交易报告，包括超过10,000美元的现金交易”。

Uncover cops sting Nguyen

发现警察刺痛nguyen

Nguyen would often meet his clients in person to accept large sums of cash, which is how he was caught, prosecutors said.

检察官说，Nguyen经常会与他的客户见面，接受大量现金，这就是他被抓住的方式。

A May 2023 indictment said that during several meetings with undercover law enforcement officers, he accepted cash and sent Bitcoin in return, taking just over 5% in commission.

2023年5月的起诉书说，在与卧底执法人员的几次会议上，他接受了现金并派遣了比特币作为回报，在佣金中仅占5％以上。

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The indictment said Nguyen used encrypted messaging apps and “technologies that made it more difficult” to trace his Bitcoin transactions and broke up the cash deposits into smaller sums over consecutive days and at different branches of the same bank to evade notice by authorities.

起诉书说，Nguyen使用了加密的消息传递应用程序和“使他的比特币交易更加困难的技术”连续几天和在同一银行的不同分支机构将现金存款分解为较小的款项，以逃避当局的通知。

Nguyen was charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and two counts of money laundering. He pleaded not guilty to all charges in June 2023.

Nguyen被控经营无牌的货币传输业务和两项洗钱罪。他在2023年6月对所有指控不认罪。

A jury convicted him in November on the unlicensed money-transmitting business charge and on just one of the money laundering charges, finding him not guilty of a separate money laundering charge.

陪审团于11月以无牌的货币传递商业指控和洗钱指控之一定罪，发现他没有单独的洗钱指控。