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Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay Shuts For Good After Police Raids (theregister.co.uk)
Dark web marketplace AlphaBay's closure last week followed an international law enforcement operation and multiple raids, it has emerged. It has also been reported that a key suspect who was arrested in the raids has died in custody. From a report: The world's biggest online drug bazaar dropped offline on 5 July, sparking fears that its administrators had disappeared taking a swag bag of digital currency with them, pulling an "exit scam" like other dark web marketplace kingpins before them. The Wall Street Journal reports that a Canadian suspected of running AlphaBay was arrested in Thailand on 5 July following an international police operation involving authorities in the US and Canada as well as Thailand. Alexandre Cazes, the 26-year-old who had been accused of being the site's admin, was found dead in a Thai jail cell on Wednesday, the WSJ adds. The Bangkok Post reported that Cazes had been resident in Thailand for about eight years and had a Thai wife. Thai authorities said they'd seized four Lamborghini cars and three upmarket residences with a combined value of $11.7m (400 million Thai Baht). US authorities had apparently been seeking to extradite Cazes at the time of his death.
Thai authorities said they'd seized four Lamborghini cars and three upmarket residences with a combined value of $11.7m (400 million Thai Baht). US authorities had apparently been seeking to extradite Cazes at the time of his death.
This guy could have lead a very comfortable life bouncing around the globe traveling, occasionally logging in to make sure things were running smoothly and shifting money out.
Where will I spend my Bitcoin now?
Sounds like he was murdered to keep him from talking. Probably a CIA hit.
Real lesson here, is don't be a foreigner who flaunts their wealth in Thailand, especially if it's drug related. You're begging for a police shakedown or to be thrown out the 10th story floor. RIP ZYZZ.
Nice.
I suppose when they seize everything, you can no longer grease the hand that feeds you.
OR
Maybe he was a loudmouth asshole in a place where loudmouth assholes are often "found dead"?
Ether way, I imagine Tai prison is a special kind of hell.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
26 bitcoins in my hand.
or they and the corrupt government behind them will come for you.
Alexandre Cazes, the 26-year-old who had been accused of being the site's admin, was found dead in a Thai jail cell on Wednesday,...Thai authorities said they'd seized four Lamborghini cars
Although not the lifestyle for me, you have to admire someone who adheres so purely to the motto "Live Fast and Die Young".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Completely different.
using the Philippine model, simply kill drug dealers?
"Rule 1. Don't attract attention."
False!
Correct: Don't Get Caught.
This time it happened under Justin's watch!
Whatever you may think of Alexandre Cazes he was only accused of a crime and he entitled to due process.
Not to being murdered in a foreign jail in a foreign land with the collusion of his own government.
Casey Neistat did a video review of "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. The Silk Road was the black market of the Internet where you could have gotten anything. I haven't read it yet but looks like a good read.
People only get hurt because these drugs are illegal in the first place. Other than second-hand smoke, there is relatively no harm to anyone else in using the drugs other than to the user. If a free country, you are supposed to be free unless someone else gets harmed by what you are doing.
Please don't respond to this by saying drugs create crime. Anything if value creates crime, like iPhones. There would be less crime if there weren't $750 phones sitting in everyone's pocket.
I'm not a drug user, and I'm not anti-law enforcement. But how many lives have been ruined by the war on drugs because saidnlife wanted to try something different or new, and we threw them in jail for it? If someone wants to harm themselves for a feeling (I'm look at you, smokers), then by all means, go ahead.
Imagine how rich drug kingpins and rackets are, and how much tax money we lose out on, and how much value gets exported when we import illegal drugs because there are no local suppliers? Every aspect of these drug laws sucks.
Not even. He was a Canadian citizen, but the US government were trying to extradite him.
Since there is no such thing as "Dark Web", where the fuck was this marketplace? Tor? i2p? somewhere else?
"News for nerds"
I sense jealousy.
I should have stopped reading the rest of the thread past this comment. All total & pure trash past this.
You couldn't be more right with your comment. Don't forget all the violence the cartels create and gangs as a result of fighting over territory.