The feds have caught up to the Silk Road. The underground website long known for drug trafficking was seized by the FBI who also arrested the owner on three criminal counts. Prosecutors charged Ross William Ulbricht with one count each of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, according to a court filing.
Silk Road has long existed in the corner of the Internet dubbed Deep Web and accessiable only through the Tor Network. Launched in 2011, the site quickly gained notoriety for its market place of drugs and guns. Basically, Silk Road became the Amazon of drugs.
As the court documents note, the owner of Silk Road, Ross William Ulbricht, intentionally and knowingly violated the US’s narcotics laws.
From in or about 2011, up to and including in or about September 2013, ROSS WILLIAM ULBRICHT, a/k/a “Dread Pirate Roberts,” a/k/a “DPR,” a/k/a “Silk Road,” the defendant, owned and operated an underground website, known as “Silk Road,” that provided a platform for drug dealers afound the world to sell a wide variety of controlled substances via the Internet.
But that’s just the start of Ulbricht’s troubles. He is also charged with hacking conspiracy and money laundering.
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Courtesy: techcrunch
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