‚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.
They “made sure we ended up at the top of the charts”, he said, adding that the fake streams also led to an uptick in real streams.‘
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/05/swedish-criminal-gangs-using-fake-spotify-streams-to-launder-money