PANews reported on November 16 that according to Cointelegraph, Larry Harmon, the founder of the crypto mixer Helix, was arrested in 2020 for helping criminals launder money and has been sentenced to three years in prison. Beryl Howell, a judge in the District Court of Columbia, said the sentence was lenient in view of his assistance in the Bitcoin Fog mixer case. Larry Harmon operated the dark web Helix cryptocurrency mixer from 2014 to 2017, laundering more than 350,000 BTC during this period. Helix works with the Grams dark web search engine, which Larry Harmon also operates.