A man who laundered millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has been sentenced to three years in prison after assisting authorities with another high-profile crypto laundering case.

An Ohio man who laundered more than $300 million of Bitcoin on behalf of drug traffickers and other criminals was sentenced to three years in prison, after a judge granted him leniency for helping the U.S. prosecute other cryptocurrency cases.

The U.S. District Court awarded an Ohio resident, Larry Dean Harmon, a three-year prison sentence with additional three-year supervised releases and ordered the surrender of over $400 million in assets for laundering money for drug dealers using a darknet-based Bitcoin mixer called 'Helix.

Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for laundering over $300 million in Bitcoin, primarily for darknet drug markets.

Helix crypto mixer founder Larry Harmon has been sentenced to three years in prison for laundering over 350,000 BTC.

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Larry Dean Harmon, 41, set up Grams in April 2014. Three months later he also set up on the dark web Helix, a so-called mixer or tumbler service that pools and swaps people's Bitcoins to obfuscate the original sources, according to court documents. You put your BTC into Helix and you get the equivalent amount of other people's out.

Authorities sentenced the operator of an infamous Bitcoin mixer service, dubbed Helix, to three years in federal prison.

An Ohio man who laundered more than $300 million of Bitcoin on behalf of drug traffickers and other criminals was sentenced to three years in prison, after a judge granted him leniency for helping the US prosecute other cryptocurrency cases.

Larry Harmon, the man behind the Helix cryptocurrency mixer, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of laundering over 350,000 Bitcoin, valued at more than $300 million at the time.