I come throughout this publish – https://forbes.to/2022/11/28/a-person-is-trying-to-hide-5-million-in-stolen-bitcoins-from-a-darknet-marketplace/ – the place some legal tried to launder stolen 300 bitcoins with mixer “desperately creating new pockets addresses”.

There may be numerous forensic methods which let tracing crypto inside identical blockchain simply sufficient, so my query could be very easy: why not simply convert stolen bitcoin to different crypto primarily based on totally different blockchain(Chain Hopping)?

P.S I assume that tracing can be stopped within the level of transfering between blockchains (you switch from pockets A1 to pockets A2 of blockchain A and get the funds on pockets B1 from pockets B2 belonging blockchain B)