During the conspiracy, more than $20 million in criminal proceeds were illegally laundered.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A man was sentenced for cyber crimes on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Kentucky.
They say and Indian national, 30-year-old Anurag Pramod Murarka was sentenced to 121 months, or around 10 years, in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Murarka was an international virtual currency vendor operating under the two monikers “elonmuskwhm” and “la2nyc.”
According to recently unsealed court documents, since at least April 2021 and continuing until Sept. 2023, Murarka operated an international money laundering business.
He advertised his services online, often on dark net marketplaces, as a money laundering service. Customers would contact him through encrypted messages in response to those advertisements and negotiate an exchange rate.
Once the exchange rate had been set, Murarka, who was located in India, directed his customers to send cryptocurrency to certain cryptocurrency addresses.
Murarka then worked through a hawala …