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Russian sentenced to French prison for bitcoin laundering

| December 8, 2020 12:03 AM

PARIS (AP) — A Russian bitcoin expert at the center of a multi-country legal tussle was sentenced in Paris on Monday to five years in prison for money laundering and ordered to pay 100,000 in fines in a case of suspected cryptocurrency fraud.

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