Originally Posted by genoveze

Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39, on Friday was arrested in Spain as part of a money laundering investigation performed jointly by police agencies in the United States and Costa Rica. (owner of Liberty Reserve)

Budovsky's businesses in Costa Rica apparently were financed by using money from child pornography websites and drug trafficking.

Budovsky and Kats were sentenced to five years in prison for engaging in the business of transmitting money without a license, a felony violation of state banking law, but got probation.

Full article here:
http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/N...ay-May-24-2013

my guess is that they wanted to stop him because he accepted payment for illegal porn and illegal services in general, so they wanted to give a pause to the illegal activites, not his money laundering, what do you think?