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Silk Road is a kind of drug scene on the Internet: On the Web, there are illegal to buy heroin, cocaine or ecstasy, is virtually paid. Now the FBI has arrested the alleged operator.
The FBIa blow against drug trafficking on the Internet is managed by its own account. The U.S. investigators participated on Tuesday in San Francisco the operator of the illegal online portal Silk Road and laid off from the Internet, such as the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. There were also converted $ 3.6 million (2.65 million euros) has been secured in the form of digital currency Bitcoin.
Silk Road was a “huge black market” in which drugs and other illegal products and services were sold, according to the complaint, which was filed in a federal court in New York. Attorney Preet Bharar said the site had developed into a “criminal of the most mature and largest market places on the internet.”
New York Attorney accuses the 29-year-old founder of the platform before also gave in March 2012, the murder of a user in order, which had threatened to reveal the identity of other Silk Road customers. In addition, Ulbricht must also answer charges of money laundering.
‘s investigation showed he had the page opened in early 2011. Internet users were able to cocaine, heroin and LSD, as well as hacker software purchase for theft of passwords. According to the application could buy stolen credit card data and hire contract killers users of Silk Road. In addition, they were given tips to avoid prosecution.
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The page was protected by an anonymizing network. Customers had to pay a commission for each transaction in the amount of eight to 15 percent. Overall, according to investigators, more than 1.2 billion dollars have been implemented over the side.
More than 100 investigators had since November 2011 and undercover drug purchases, which were then analyzed in a laboratory. The drugs they received from dealers in the U.S. and Canada, but also from sellers from more than ten European countries, including the Netherlands, UK, Spain and France. According to the prosecutor’s office had the site in July, almost a million users, a third of them live accordingly in the USA.
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