Department of the Treasury as required, and set up multiple businesses to avoid detection, investigators found. He never registered his companies with the U.S. Mejia, of Ontario, charged commissions on nearly $13 million in transactions by his virtual businesses over more than two years, the statement said. Hugo Sergio Mejia, 50, pleaded guilty in July to one count each of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and money laundering, according to a statement from the U.S. A Southern California man was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for operating unlicensed businesses that illegally exchanged millions of dollars in Bitcoin and cash, often for drug dealers, prosecutors said.
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