However regardless of their complexity, former founder and chief of cybercrime cartel Shadow Crew, Brett Johnson informed CoinDesk final yr that a few of Lichtenstein’s laundering strategies, akin to utilizing Coinbase accounts instantly linked to him, “didn’t make sense” and urged an absence of expertise. “Ilya is a f***ing fool. Should you take a look at the best way he was making an attempt to launder cash, he was doing completely all the things fallacious,” Johnson mentioned on the time.
