[howlin]

They could buy the hardware and power needed to mine new coins. This seems to be the simplest solution for someone who wants to get a couple thousand bitcoins without leaving a paper trail.

[solotronics]

there is a theory that this is the reason the majority of miners are in China. Combine cheap power from bribed officials and the mining ASICs and you have money laundering generators.

[Retric]

Buying Bitcoin ASIC miners creates a paper trail.

Manufacturing them in china let's you move money around, but you could also Manufacture anything else and just sell it in the west.

[duxup]

You gotta buy the hardware in some fashion that is deniable or hidden .... same thing with running it.

That's a lot of work.