哥伦比亚加密货币经纪人获刑160个月：经美国空壳公司网络洗钱毒资约1450万美元
美国司法部纽约南区联邦检察官办公室宣布，哥伦比亚居民、加密货币经纪人 Leonardo De Jesus Zuluaga Duque（别号「Rey」）10月21日被联邦地区法官 Mary Kay Vyskocil 判处160个月（13年4个月）监禁，另加5年监督释放，并被判没收14,751,846美元及其控制的四个加密货币地址中的代币。他是该国际洗钱网络六名被告中最后一名被宣判者。
检方称，Zuluaga Duque 在网络中担任监督角色：毒品交易所得先被兑换成稳定币 Tether，经他与同伙 Erica Milena Lopez Ortiz 转交经营无牌汇款业务的 Maximilien De Hoop Cartier，由其控制的美国空壳公司把资金兑成美元、再转至哥伦比亚公司，最终换成哥伦比亚比索分发。2023年5月至11月，该网络共洗白约1,450万美元毒资；De Hoop Cartier 的无牌汇款业务经手非法资金总额超过4.7亿美元，他此前已被判8年监禁。联邦检察官 Jamie McDonald 表示，被告利用加密货币、美哥两国的空壳公司网络与大量加密账户，借助美国金融系统洗白数以亿计美元计的毒资与其他犯罪所得。
Zuluaga Duque 还与同伙合谋进口可卡因：2023年11月，执法部门线人在其安排下谈成约9公斤可卡因膏的交易，由同伙向卧底警员交货、他从中抽佣；2024年2月另一笔约100公斤可卡因膏交易谈判期间，哥伦比亚国家警察执行搜查令，从两名同伙处查获约111公斤可卡因膏。其余五名同伙此前已分别被判36至96个月监禁。此案由联邦调查局（FBI）、国土安全调查局纽约 El Dorado 特遣队与 IRS 刑事调查部门联合调查。
Colombian Cryptocurrency Broker Sentenced to 160 Months: About $14.5 Million in Drug Proceeds Laundered Through U.S. Shell Companies
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Leonardo De Jesus Zuluaga Duque, also known as 'Rey,' a Colombia-based cryptocurrency broker, was sentenced on October 21 by U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil to 160 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $14,751,846 and the tokens previously held in four cryptocurrency addresses he controlled. He was the last of six defendants in the international laundering network to be sentenced.
Prosecutors said Zuluaga Duque played a supervisory role in a network that converted drug-trafficking proceeds into Tether, a dollar-linked stablecoin, and moved it through the United States to Colombia. Working with Erica Milena Lopez Ortiz, he transferred Tether to Maximilien De Hoop Cartier, whose unlicensed money-transmitting business used U.S. shell companies to convert the funds to dollars and send them to Colombian companies, where they were converted into pesos for distribution. Between May and November 2023 the network laundered about $14.5 million in drug proceeds; De Hoop Cartier's business transmitted more than $470 million in illicit proceeds overall, and he was previously sentenced to eight years in prison. U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said the defendants used cryptocurrency, a network of shell companies in the U.S. and Colombia, and numerous crypto accounts to exploit the U.S. financial system to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money and other criminal proceeds.
Zuluaga Duque also conspired to import cocaine: in November 2023, law-enforcement sources arranged the purchase of about nine kilograms of cocaine paste, delivered to an undercover officer, for which he took a commission; during negotiations for a further roughly 100-kilogram deal in February 2024, the Colombian National Police seized about 111 kilograms of cocaine paste from two co-defendants. The other five defendants were previously sentenced to between 36 and 96 months in prison. The case was investigated by the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations' New York El Dorado Task Force, and IRS Criminal Investigation.
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