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Discussion => Legal => Topic started by: Ben on October 14, 2013, 12:24 pm
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As announed by the Dutch DOJ: (machine translated):
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The police Wednesday in Putting two men of 24 and 29 years held that sold drugs on the Internet . The infamous website Silk Road , a deeply hidden , anonymous marketplace on the internet , they offered to hard drugs probably . The orders were dealt with so-called bitcoins , a virtual currency on the Internet.
Under the name XTC Express offered the suspects 10 Ecstasy pills stamped it with a skull for 1.58 bitcoins , an amount equivalent to 156 euros . The drugs were to be shipped from Germany .
living Dangerously
On a forum that is linked to the website customers to share their experiences about the quality of the drugs, the transmission and the reliability of the providers. On XTC Express reacted customers from all over the world with high satisfaction score . The Ecstasy named Skull (skull ) contain about 300 milligrams of MDMA , a dangerous concentration of drugs. The customers are from the United States , Canada , Australia , Argentina , the United Kingdom , Sweden , Ireland and South Africa .
By order of the Public Prosecutor of the National Prosecutor listened police since last month the phone and the BlackBerry messages of suspects off . Wednesday was the pair caught red-handed in the manufacture of ecstasy in a container behind the house in Crossing . The suspects were arrested with a thick layer of suspected MDMA powder in their hair .
Tabletting machine
Police found a tableting machine , baking with very likely MDMA powder , extenders and a large number of new and used stamps to . These stamps were among other logos of hearts , garnets and box heads .
The house is about 20 pounds and a quantity of Ecstasy MDMA seized and 26,000 euros in cash . During the search of the home of 29 - year-old suspect from Arnhem is another more than 80,000 euros in cash in a cardboard box confiscated. The suspects are made today by the magistrate in Rotterdam for two weeks in custody .
Silk Road has become notorious for supply include hard drugs , such as ecstasy , heroin and cocaine . The underground market is taken by the FBI last week from the internet .
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Dutch source (CLEARNET GOVERNMENT WEBSITE): http://www.om.nl/@161621/xtc-express/
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wowzers scoob
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Sorry for the poor translation btw, i just ran it through google translate to give you guys an update what is going on here.
It is not 100% clear if this bust is based (solely) on their SR activities, since the information was obtained through a phone tap that had been running for a month. It is possible that dutch authorities got a heads up about this from the FBI since the server image they obtained is old enough to precede the wire tap. But it also possible that they got the tap based on other evidence, perhaps the purchase of the mdma power or other equipment.
For anyone looking for information: The town is named 'Zetten', which google translate transformed into 'Crossing'.
Interestingly, no BTC have been seized in this case (yet), just plain old cash so far, over $130k of it.