Warily answering the door of his Las Vegas hotel suite, the undercover agent expected to find himself face-to-face with a seasoned criminal.
It was April 2014 and the agent and his partner, who was also in the room, were posing as drug traffickers.
They had set a trap for a man they knew only as ‘Bill’ who advertised his money-laundering services on the dark web and with whom, until now, they had communicated only via an encrypted app.
Fresh-faced, confident and smartly dressed, Bill breezed into the room with an outstretched hand.
What surprised the US investigators above all was his age and accent.
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