Maybe bitcoin used to be a tool for money laundering.
But if bitcoin is now used as a tool for money laundering, the criminals are a bunch of stupid people. Because more anonymous tokens have emerged, it is safer to use these anonymous tokens for money laundering, and bitcoin is now more of an investment.
That's absolutely true mate, it maybe used to money laundering because they can easily withdraw a huge money in anonymous name. So the best way to treat bitcoin as a cyber tool is make a ticket just like what they do to bounty. Required to fill up for example ,a (KYC) Know Your Customer to prevent from criminal doing.