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⇱ The Coin Laundry, a global cryptocurrency investigation


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The Coin Laundry

How the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime β€” and left a trail of devastated victims.

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Key findings

1
An investigation by more than 100 journalists from 38 news outlets exposes how cryptocurrency platforms profit from the proceeds of crime while those harmed are left with little hope of justice.
2
Two of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges moved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of funds tied to illicit actors after pleading guilty to crimes relating to money laundering.
3
So-called crypto-to-cash desks, which let people anonymously cash out huge sums of crypto without identity checks, have opened a new frontier for money laundering.
4
One of the people backing Kevin Spacey’s Hollywood comeback is a crypto guru who allegedly used a rigged cryptocurrency platform to power a massive Ponzi and pyramid scheme.
5
The Coin Laundry relies on a trailblazing analysis of tens of thousands of cryptocurrency transactions to expose the global financial flows behind money laundering networks, cyber heists and other criminal enterprises.

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DATA JOURNALISM

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