Alpha02's first posts on TCF were in French and in the French section of the forum, multiple times said that he/she was from Canada, telling stories for example when he/she carded goods in the USA and were stopped at the Canadian border.
Alpha02 was a moderator of TCF, where Verto (Evolution) was the admin. In this circle 'russia' is known to be outside the jurisdiction of the USA, so it should not come as a surprise to anyone that Alpha02 implied indirectly that AlphaBayMarket was hosted in Russia for example.
I think, what happened was that Alpha02 hosted the market where he/she lived, got caught alongside the hosting center, thus the downtime.
i debated commenting on the canadian raid thread that alpha02 was indeed canadian, but figured i owed him some respect. you spilled the beans though so whatever