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Sitemap Creator accused of ordering the killing of two people

FBI apprehends most trusted drug sales

Until very recently, anyone could access the Silk Road and order all sorts of drugs, from LSD to mushrooms illegal. That all ended after the FBI stop operations of this site Deep Web which handled millions of euros. Your responsibility is also accused of ordering the killing of two people.

By: JD

The Silk Road was the most popular site for those looking to change their state of mind thanks to illegal substances. And “was” because the FBI seized the domain and sent down the site where you could buy and sell illegal drugs to any part of the world.

Due to the illegal nature, the Silk Road was housed in the Deep Web, and therefore only possible to access with anonymity software like Tor. The problem is that this anonymity is not real. Especially because the FBI revealed last month have created numerous websites on Deep Web, housed in areas . Onion for monitoring and surveillance surfers who participate in illegal and suspicious activities, from “mild” purchase and consumption drugs, the heaviest exchange of child pornography and even contract killings.

The process initiated by the U.S. authorities reveal Ross William Ulbricht, also known by the pseudonyms “Dread Pirate Roberts”, “DPR” and “Silk Road” as the mastermind of the whole operation. The FBI identifies this man as responsible for the site and the main charge about himself is that of conspiracy to traffic in narcotics. It is also charged with two other offenses: conspiracy hacking and conspiracy to money laundering.

The FBI suspects that the activities of this site have generated about 1.2 billion dollars (about 900 million), and further 80 million dollars (60 million euros) in commissions for salespeople virtual. Since all transactions made on the Deep Web is through bitcoins (virtual money that can be generated, exchanged or bought with money ‘real’).

Graph Activity recorded at Silk Road in the last days, before and after the FBI had closed the site

And if, by chance, already knew this site and think that so far it was a perfectly safe place to buy drugs, or that it is very easy to deceive a buyer delivering damaged material who paid for the order, is quite mistaken.

In the United States the police have been conducting since 2011, several narcotic purchase transactions – as ecstasy, LSD, cocaine or heroin – the different vendors at Silk Road. And found that the quality of products sold was ‘good’.

This also means ‘bad news’ for the ‘dealers’ who had the money from their sales stored in the vaults of the virtual site. With the domain seized, the FBI has full access to all the information filed, including this money.

The message that comes up when someone try to access the address silkroadvb5piz3r.onion

Ross Ulbricht, the suspect, 29-year-old has since been arrested and could be charged with further crimes. And much more serious.

The online presence of this “entrepreneurial and investment adviser”, how this man presents to your LinkedIn profile, also reveals that will pay for the murder of two people, two of his former comrades Silk Road, also through other Web sites Deep

The first case, also present in the lawsuit filed by the FBI, have occurred in the state of Maryland. Ulbricht is suspected of paying $ 27,000 in bitcoins (about 20,000 euros) through a business selling cocaine to a mercenary torturing one of his employees who he thought was a steal bitcoins from site users until this give back everything you took.

The order eventually went from “torture” to “kill”, since that his employee had been arrested and could easily expose their activities.

The second case presented by the FBI refers to a dealer who threatened to reveal the identities of all the people involved in that business.

In this situation, Ulbricht has made payment of $ 150,000 (110,000 euros), so another mercenary would carry out this man’s death, but it was all in a police operation that already at the time was in EnCalcE Ulbricht.