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New Zealand Case Law

Cryptocurrency
  • 8 Jun 2021

    R v WILLIAMS [2021] NZHC 1338

    Citation
    [2021] NZHC 1338
    Court
    High Court

    The offender occupied a significant facilitative financial role in a large-scale methamphetamine operation, aggravated by personal gain and exceptional premeditation via cryptocurrency arrangements; a starting point of 3 years and 3 months imprisonment was appropriate, reduced by a 20% guilty plea discount, a 5% allowance for childhood trauma and a reduction approximating four months for time on electronically monitored bail, giving a final sentence of 2 years and 1 month imprisonment; home detention was not appropriate.