remyers on Nostr: "Describing the process, he said the gangs would convert their dirty cash to bitcoin, ...

"Describing the process, he said the gangs would convert their dirty cash to bitcoin, then used the cryptocurrency to pay people who sold fake streams on Spotify, which is a Swedish company."

https://www.thelocal.se/20230906/how-swedish-criminal-gangs-allegedly-launder-money-through-spotify

I want to know more about how these gangs converted their dirty cash to bitcoin in Sweden, and why the Spotify step was needed at all. Seems like a cumbersome mechanism.