Silk Road 2 Admin forfeors $ 667,000 in Bitcoin to British law enforcement authorities -

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Silk Road 2 Admin forfeors $ 667,000 in Bitcoin to British law enforcement authorities
The founder of the now dissolved marketplace Silk Road 2 Bitcoin, worth more than half a billion dollars, forfeited

to the British authorities. Whites admin handle from Silk Road 2 was called "Cthulhu" and he also called himself "DPR2".

Silk Road 2 Admin Thomas White loses $ 667K in Bitcoin

in April 2019, Bitcoin.com News Registered by Thomas White, the leading administrator of the meantime Determined Darknet marketplace Silk Road 2 (DNM), which is sentenced to five years in prison. The Silk Road 2 (SR2) DNM was the successor to the original Silk Road after the first administrator of the Silk Road was taken into custody. The 26-year-old White operated the DNM under the names "Cthulhu" and "DPR2" and was finally followed when he ordered a package on the SR2 marketplace himself.

Sky Nachrichten was forced to give Bitcoin worth £ 490,000 ($ 667,000) from its net proceeds. The prosecutors continue to monitor White's finances after he was imprisoned, and the National Crime Agency (NCA) believes that with his SR2 operations he deserves around £ 1.5 million (USD $ 2,048,100). Criminal prosecution that the SR2 after its introduction every month every month to bitcoin brought in.

National Crime Agency claims that White is a “respected member of the original silk -road hierarchy”

According to reports, SR2 had no official connection to the original Silk Road market, but appeared online about 30 days after the website has been confiscated in October 2013. At the court hearing last week, White was described as members of the original Silk. Market.

"Thomas White was a respected member of the original hierarchy of the Silk Road," said Tyrone Surgeon, an NCA spokesman. "He used this to his advantage when the original location was closed and benefited significantly from his criminal activities. This case proves that crime does not pay off - he has not only spent the last two years in prison, but has now to be handed over almost £ 500," added Surgeon.

So far, White has served two years of its five -year and four -month prison sentence and at the same time forfeited Bitcoin worth $ 667,000. The SR2 administrator was charged with money laundering, drug trafficking and possession of illegal images. "This was a complex, international investigation and shows that we will use every instrument available to us to prevent organized criminals from benefiting from their crimes," added Surgeon in his explanation.

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