Two Bitcoin Launderers Sentenced to Prison in the Netherlands
HomePostsTwo Bitcoin Launderers Sentenced to Prison in the NetherlandsTwo Bitcoin Launderers Sentenced to Prison in the NetherlandsTwo money launderers were sentenced to prison for laundering more than 16 million...
German Man Sentenced for Buying Heroin on the Darkweb
HomePostsGerman Man Sentenced for Buying Heroin on the DarkwebGerman Man Sentenced for Buying Heroin on the DarkwebA 38-year-old was sentenced at Rosenheim District Court to two years and ten...
The Cyberbunker Trial Began This Week
The Cyberbunker trial began this week. Eight defendants are facing charges for “aiding and abetting criminals in some 249,000 illegal online transactions involving drugs, contract killings, money laundering and...
Austrian Man Arrested for Reselling Amphetamines from the Darkweb
The Upper Austria State Police Directorate announced the arrest of a man suspected of importing and reselling drugs he purchased on the darkweb.According to the announcement, the 20-year-old man...
Crooked police chief sentenced to 8 years for dark web shenanigans
Former police chief Yuri Zaitsev was recently sentenced to eight years in prison for acting as a bounty hunter for a dark web marketplace. In December 2018, Zaitsev was working...
US financial watchdog fines early Bitcoin mixer $60M for money laundering
The founder and operator of some of the first "mixing" services in crypto will have to cough up $60 million to United States regulators, even as he faces continued...
Utah Fentanyl Vendor Sentenced to Life in Prison
Aaron Michael Shamo, 30, 0f of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, led a nation-wide darkweb drug trafficking operation that distributed hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills to customers throughout the United...
Suspected Darkweb Vendors Arrested on RICO Charges
They did the RICO, according to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office.An extensive investigation led by law enforcement in Florida resulted in the arrest of two suspected darkweb vendors. The...
Eastern Europe’s sixth-largest crypto service is a darknet market
Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has found that darknet markets exert a disproportionate presence in Eastern Europe’s crypto sector.In an excerpt from Chainalysis’ 2020 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report, the firm...
Darknet, cryptocurrency and two intersecting health crises
While the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is unknown, it has infected more than 30 million people, with almost 1 million confirmed to have died from it as...
