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?
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?
Since bitcoin can go anonymously, most of the people see it as an opportunity to scam others and do money laundering for some people. Bitcoin, for me, considered as a mainstream thing of our society and because of that many people are starting to be involve in here resulting to the tricksters use it as a way to get what they want in a bad way.