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2020-11-10 09:32:40

Ex-Microsoft Engineer Convicted In Landmark Case Involving Bitcoin Tax Fraud

In what is presented as the first US criminal case involving bitcoin (BTC) that has a tax component, a software engineer was sentenced to nine years of prison for 18 federal felonies related to his scheme to defraud software giant Microsoft, his former employer, of more than USD 10m. The convict used a bitcoin mixing service with the aim to hide the source of the funds

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