Irish Silk Road Admin is Fighting an FBI-led Extradition Process
Microsoft and the U.S. government are in an ongoing battle over an Irishman allegedly involved in Silk Road wanted by the FBI on darknet drug charges, as reported by Deep Dot Web. The 27-year-old Irishman, Gary Davis, from Wicklow, is currently fighting an extradition case led by the FBI so that he can avoid facing charges for his alleged involvement in Silk Road, the illegal online marketplace. Mr Davis is alleged to have been an administrator on the website using the name ‘Libertas’ when the FBI shut it down in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that worked on the darknet offering....
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IRELAND — The High Court will decide on the extradition of Gary Davis (27), from Johnstown Court, Kilpedder, on a mixed bag of hacking and laundering charges stemming from the Silk Road (SR) website. Davis, otherwise known as “Libertas,” was indicted in late 2013 with two others, Peter Nash and Andrew Jones “Inigo,” for being SR moderators. However, two....
The Irish High Court has ordered the extradition to the United States of Gary Davis, a 27-year-old from Johnstown Court in Kilpedder, Co. Wicklow, who is alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software. He is wanted by US authorities on charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Squeezed but pleased. The judge, Mr Justice Paul McDermott, rejected all grounds of Mr Davis’s opposition to the request including that his Constitutional rights and....
28-year-old Brian Farrell aka “DoctorClu”, a senior admin and second-in-command on Silk Road 2.0, the copycat clone of the original underground darknet website Silk Road was sentenced to eight years in prison. DoctorClu, the right-hand man to Silk Road 2.0 chief Blake Benthall aka “Defcon” and second-highest admin at Silk Road 2.0 was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of distribution of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Brian Farrell, plead guilty in March 2016 and his plea was accepted the following month. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five....
Very shortly following the closing of the Silk Road bitcoin drug marketplace, another sprouted up - aptly named Silk Road 2.0. The second iteration was, for the most part, a copy of the first, but with added security measures. Now, reports are circulating that several involved with Silk Road 2.0 have been apprehended by law enforcement and are in custody. One of them, (Gary Davis) nicknamed Libertas, was based in Ireland, and was arrested by the Garda Siochana (Irish Police). Another, Michael Jones (nicknamed Inigo), was arrested by the FBI in the state of Virginia. Peter Phillip Nash....