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A Mexican national could spend up to two decades in prison after pleading guilty to laundering $4 million worth of drug trafficking proceeds via crypto.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says<\/a> Carlos Erick Vazquez Gonzalez, 48, earned $40,000 by working with various \u201cmoney brokers\u201d who had him collect drug profits earned in cities throughout the country.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez ended up securing $4 million worth of the drug profits in a crypto wallet. He quickly moved the digital assets to obscure their origins, then sold the crypto for US dollars in Mexico.<\/p>\n

The DOJ says Gonzalez then returned the cash to a \u201cmoney broker\u201d who arranged the pickup of drug proceeds in the US.<\/p>\n

The Mexican national\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for December 17th. He faces a\u00a0maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

US regulators also claim<\/a> Mexican drug cartels employ crypto for multiple purposes beyond money laundering. In 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)\u00a0said<\/a> Mexican drug traffickers were using digital assets to purchase fentanyl precursor chemicals,\u00a0 pill presses, die molds and other manufacturing equipment from Chinese companies.<\/p>\n

The cartels reportedly rely on Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>), Ethereum (ETH<\/a>), the top stablecoin\u00a0USDT<\/a>\u00a0and the privacy coin Monero (XMR<\/a>), among other crypto assets.<\/p>\n

FinCEN is an agency at the U.S. Department of the Treasury that polices money laundering and terrorism financing.<\/p>\n

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