Silk Road 2.0 Seized, Alleged Operator Unmasked in FBI Crackdown
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) together with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have announced that they have arrested 'Defcon', the operator of illicit black market website Silk Road 2.0. At press time, the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace was no longer operational, with the website displaying a disclaimer that it had been taken down by Europol, Eurojust, the FBI, US Department of Justice and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Authorities arrested 26-year-old San Francisco native Blake Benthall yesterday in his home city. He will appear in federal court today....
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that they have successfully seized the assets of the Silk Road 2.0 in a joint operation with Europol and the New York Office of Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit and Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit. The investigation is called Operation Onymous. Apparently, the agent who filed the complaint was Vincent D. D’Augostino, a well-known Agent in Charge who previously led the team that brought down 115 members of the New York Mafia families in 2013. Whether D’Augostino was the team leader for Onymous has not yet been revealed.....
Irishman Gary Davis, 28, has been ordered to be extradited to the United States for his alleged participation with the Silk Road Marketplace. The Kilpedder in Co Wicklow resident was charged with two others of conspiracy to distribute illicit drugs, computer espionage, and money laundering charges. Irishman With Aspergers May Face Trial In New York For....
Check out this article from The Guardian. Majority of Silk Road's Bitcoins may remain unseized. Four-fifths of the income received by the Silk Road boss, Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), has not been seized by FBI, research shows. The supposed one-fifth of Silk Road's bitcoins that have been seized are held at this wallet by the FBI: 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX. It is great fun to read through all the transaction notes, angry rantings, loan requests, etc that people are sending to the publicly viewable address. These bitcoins were seized from the Silk Road but they were not seized from....
On November 3, 2020, the cryptocurrency community noticed that one of the largest addresses holding 69,369 bitcoins from the Silk Road were transferred. Following the onchain movement, the U.S. government revealed it had seized the coins from a person they dubbed “Individual X.” The following is an in-depth look at what we know about the Silk Road bitcoin address that was seized by U.S. law enforcement. This week on election day in the U.S., American law enforcement officials seized 69,369 bitcoins worth over $1 billion today. The bitcoin address is a well known address and....
Ross Ulbricht, the alleged owner of the seized online drug marketplace Silk Road, is now accused of plotting murder schemes of six people, including his own employee who, he believed, had stolen around $350,000 worth of Bitcoins from him. The US investigators, who were collecting evidence from Ulbricht's laptop to prove his alleged involvement with Silk Road, found some electronic communications which mentioned the suspected thief and the illegal methods to get rid of him, according to the filing mentioned on Bloomberg. The conversation was conducted in January and February 2013, in which....