According to CriptoNoticias, a criminal court in Costa Rica sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each on September 17 for money laundering. The case is linked to the 2018 kidnapping and murder of William Sean Creighton Kopko, the owner of the U.S. gambling platform 5Dimes. His family paid approximately 148 BTC as ransom for his release, worth around $1 million at the time (equivalent to about $12.04 million at the current BTC price of $81,300 as of September 20). The court found that the two defendants, along with other individuals involved, received part of the ransom in Bitcoin and deposited it into wallets under their control, attempting to conceal the illegal origin of the funds. https://www.(wublock123.com)/news/costa-rica-148-btc-kidnap-ransom-sentencing-money-laundering-68682