A man in the United States has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for allegedly committing Bitcoin Money Laundering and ordered to forfeit $1.5 million.

According to Gate News bot, as reported by Cointelegraph, an American man was sentenced to six years in prison for operating a cash-to-Bitcoin service that prosecutors referred to as “no questions asked,” and was ordered to forfeit over a million dollars.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced on May 22 that U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns sentenced Trung Nguyen, from Danvers, Massachusetts, to six years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and fined him $1.5 million.

The prosecutor stated that Nguyen operated an unlicensed remittance company called “National Vending” from September 2017 to October 2020, using various skills he learned in online courses to evade authorities.

As part of the course, Nguyen learned how to conceal its true business from banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and state government agencies, disguising itself as a vending machine company that accepts cash deposits, having a fictitious vendor list, and avoiding the use of the term “Bitcoin” as much as possible.

The prosecutor stated that Nguyen’s client base includes several victims who were scammed by overseas fraudsters into exchanging cash for Bitcoin, as well as a drug dealer who transferred $250,000 in cash through 10 transactions in 2018.

The U.S. Department of Justice stated that Nguyen exchanged over $1 million into Bitcoin and “intentionally did not” register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which violated federal anti-money laundering regulations.