Between 2004 and 2010, HSBC laundered Billions of Dollars for the Mexican Drug cartels and nobody blinked an eye. After
7 years of doing this, they got busted and they paid US$1.9bn in fines. {This could be recovered in profits, within a few
weeks} Most people saw this as a slap on the wrist for the people who were involved with this. Not one person working for the
Bank got jail time for doing this.
https://observer.news/featured/5-years-ago-hsbc-fined-record-us1-9bn/Ross Ulbricht, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for creating and running Silk Road, which allegedly facilitated
the sale of $250 million worth of drugs.
Why are we seeing such double standards, when Bitcoin is involved?
We all know that bitcoin is a decentralised crypto currency and there is no such proper authentic regulating body over the bitcoin who could keep eye over all the bitcoin activities and this this defect is misused by some social defaulters as in many illegal activities like in selling drugs, explosives, money laundering etc and also it transactions does not involve any third party seizure thus no third person could see the transaction between two and thus bitcoin is exclusively used in money laundering and other illegal activities too.