Quote Originally Posted by scarebearz View Post
In the "real world" that you keep talking about, if you put an item for sale in an auction house and it sells, but it was bought with stolen money, the seller would not be locked up for a week. It would be the auction house that has to deal with it, in this case SE as they run the market in effect.
I don't want to drag this analogy out too far, but yes, if you receive stolen or otherwise illegally obtained money in the real world without doing what the authorities consider adequate checks on the provenance on the money you are held criminally responsible under money laundering regulations. possible penalties include custodial sentences, loss of license to operate and unlimited fines.

HSBC was fined hundreds of millions earlier this year by US authorities for exactly this.