Costa Rica court sentences two men to 12 years each in Bitcoin ransom laundering case

A court in Costa Rica has sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each for money laundering, according to CriptoNoticias. The case is tied to the 2018 kidnapping and killing of U.S. businessman William Sean Creighton Copco. His family paid about 148 BTC in ransom at the time, worth roughly $1 million. The court found that the two defendants received part of that ransom and deposited the funds into wallets under their control in an effort to conceal the origin of the assets. The ruling links the laundering charge directly to the handling of part of the Bitcoin ransom connected to the case.