However regardless of their complexity, former founder and chief of cybercrime cartel Shadow Crew, Brett Johnson instructed CoinDesk final yr that a few of Lichtenstein’s laundering strategies, akin to utilizing Coinbase accounts immediately linked to him, “did not make sense” and steered an absence of expertise. “Ilya is a f***ing idiot. If you look at the way he was trying to launder money, he was doing absolutely everything wrong,” Johnson mentioned on the time.
