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U.S. citizen Joanna De Alba allegedly promoted and sold narcotics for Bitcoin
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Hugh Brian Haney, a former narcotics dealer, has pled guilty to charges of laundering over $19 million USD of his profits that were raised illegally using Silk Road, a prominent dark web market. Now, according to the prosecutors of the Southern District of New York, a plea deal was struck and Haney will go to […]
2019-11-9 00:15 | |
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Brian Haney, a former narcotics trafficker, pled guilty to charges that he laundered $19 million in bitcoin on Silk Road.
2019-11-8 12:00 | |
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OFAC and FinCEN announced a coordinated effort to sanction three Chinese nationals for an international drug trafficking operation with profits laundered via Bitcoin and Litecoin. The culprits, identified as Xiaobing Yan, Fujing Zheng, and Guanghua Zheng, were accused of manufacturing and distributing lethal narcotics.
2019-8-23 04:25 | |
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German police have busted Chemical Revolution, a dark web marketplace, which allowed consumers to buy narcotics with Bitcoin. According to a press release issued by Germany‘s Federal Criminal Police Office, officers have made 11 arrests in connection with the operation.
2019-6-29 16:32 | |
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A drug-smuggling kingpin has been using west Dublin teenagers as young as 14 to store large amounts of narcotics bought with cryptocurrency via the dark web, reports Irish local media The Journal citing sources familiar with the matter.
2019-6-27 14:33 | |
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A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Reeves, who sold the drugs under the moniker “Platinum45,” was sentenced on Monday by by United States District Judge James V.
2019-6-13 12:34 | |
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The public’s appetite for darknet drugs remains undaunted. A major new survey has shown consistent growth in online drug sales since 2014, with Scotland, Brazil and England leading the demand for narcotics procured off the darknet.
2019-6-5 17:52 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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Police have busted two prolific dark web drug markets in a global sting, seizing six-figure amounts of Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency, as well as loads of narcotics. “[The Wall Street Market] was the world’s second largest dark web market, enabling the trade in drugs (including cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines), stolen data, fake documents and malicious software,” said Europol.
2019-5-3 16:21 | |
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Bitcoin hard fork proponent, Roger Ver, called Ross Ulbricht a genius entrepreneur and a hero during a recent YouTube session. Ulbricht, who was the founder of Silk Road, was charged with money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
2019-4-9 04:30 | |
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As part of an ongoing criminal case, a judge in Canada has ordered that a local online drug dealer must forfeit about 281. 41 bitcoin (worth about $1. 4 million) after it was found that he used the cryptocurrency to fund his illegal activities.
2019-4-5 20:02 | |
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A Canadian judge has ordered the forfeiture of approximately $1. 4 million in Bitcoin found on a drug dealer’s computer as part of a criminal investigation. On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly ordered that 281.
2019-4-4 11:48 | |
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The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, better known as Europol, announced on March 26, 2019, that it has made an ongoing partnership with law enforcement from Canada, the United States and the member states of the European Union to target buyers and sellers of illegal items on the dark web.
2019-3-28 20:24 | |
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In Rancho Cordova of California, a local nurse has been apprehended by authorities, who have charged her with the sale of illegal narcotics, performed through markets on the dark web. The police allege that the nurse’s name was Farmacy41, and she managed to spread the sales through three markets, raking in over 200 BTC. The […]
2019-1-30 01:39 | |
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Regulation and institutional investors seem to be pulling Bitcoin ever further away from its original intended purpose. Surely, buying bitcoin should be as simple and anonymous as sending it? Luckily, voucher-based solutions like Azteco feel the same and they’ve made BTC as easy to buy as topping up your phone credit.
2019-1-24 23:00 | |
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Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has run into trouble in the Japanese legal system, and prosecutors are pursuing a 10-year jail sentence for alleged embezzlement during his tenure at Mt.
2018-12-13 21:15 | |
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Gary Davis, an Irishman who was extradited to the United States in July to face charges for his suspected involvement in the operations of Silk Road, has reportedly begun discusssing a plea bargain with prosecutors.
2018-10-28 03:15 | |
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The darknet site founded by Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, has been offline for years now. But the legal questions behind his conviction and subsequent sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, remain fresh, raw and real to Ulbricht’s advocates.
2018-7-28 23:38 | |
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The U. S. Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service (USSS), the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have apprehended more than 35 dark web drugs and arms dealers in a nation-wide bust.
2018-6-27 20:26 | |
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A fifty-nine-year-old Canadian man accused of advising Ross Ulbricht, the creator and operator of the first anonymous free market, Silk Road, has been extradited to the United States from Thailand.
2018-6-17 10:35 | |
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Gal Vallerius, a 36-year-old French national pleaded guilty this week in the US of selling narcotics on the Dark Web under the nickname of OxyMonster. In a criminal complaint filed last year, investigators say that Vallerius configured a “tip jar” on the Dream Market Dark Web marketplace. The tip jar was meant to allow users
2018-6-17 00:15 | |
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A 36-year-old French national plead guilty this week in U. S. courts for selling narcotics for Bitcoin on the dark web. Guy Vallerius, who operated under the monkier ‘OxyMonster,’ was arrested by authorities at the Atalanta airport last September as he was making his way to Austin, Texas to take part in the World Beard and.
2018-6-16 13:30 | |
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Полиция Чехии задержала основателя даркнет-платформы Sheep Marketplace Томаша Йириковского (Tomas Jirikovsky) за пожертвование 468 биткоинов бывшему министру юстиции Павлу Блажеку (Pavel Blazek).
Ливерпульский королевский суд приговорил бывшего сотрудника Национального агентства по борьбе с преступностью Великобритании (NCA) Пола Чоулза (Paul Chowles) к пяти с половиной годам тюрьмы за кражу 50 биткоинов, конфискованных у сооснователя даркнет-платформы Silk Road 2.0 Томаса Уайта (Thomas White).
Депутат парламента Швеции Рикард Нордин (Rickard Nordin) предложил министру финансов Элизабет Свантессон (Elisabeth Svantesson) рассмотреть возможность формирования национального резерва биткоинов за счет средств, конфискованных в ходе уголовных расследований.
Даркнет-маркетплейсы возвращаются к использованию биткоина в качестве основного инструмента оплаты после делистинга Monero (XMR) с криптобирж. Об этом в интервью CoinDesk рассказал исследователь киберпреступлений компании Chainalysis Эрик Джардин.
Былая слава биткоина как короля нелегальных трансакций медленно, но верно тает. Вместо него преступный мир все активнее выбирает анонимные криптовалюты вроде Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Dash и стейблкоины.
We gained access to BreachForums, a closed online forum with a thriving cybercrime community, to get a sense of the products and services being sold on the digital black market of the dark web. Here’s what we found. What is…
Хизер Морган (Heather Morgan), известная как рэпер Razzlekhan, приговорена к 18 месяцам тюремного заключения за соучастие в отмывании криптовалюты, украденной ее мужем во время взлома криптобиржи Bitfinex.