Four men have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a British court for fraudulently obtaining and laundering approximately $26 million worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from an Australian cryptocurrency exchange, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement. Includes fraud, conversion and transfer of criminal property offences. The four men worked with James Parker, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability on the cryptocurrency exchange platform and orchestrated a conspiracy between October 2017 and January 2018 that would have enabled him and his associates to improperly way to obtain credit worth £21 million. James Parker passed away in January 2021.