Police bust alleged operator of Bitcoin mixing service Helix

The Ohio man is charged with running a Bitcoin mixer to launder over $300m—now worth $3.6b—on behalf of Dark Net crooks trying to hide out.

Fake Bitcoin exchange traps drug dealers on the dark web

As around 35 alleged drug vendors have found out to their cost, you never know who you’ll meet on the dark web. In the case of the customers of one money laundering operation, it turned out to be agents working for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).