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Title: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: Randian Hero on June 13, 2015, 11:01:39 PM
Article: http://norran.se/nyheter/blaljus-nyheter/drev-knarkliga-pa-natet-har-ar-huvudmannen-371642

Google translated to English here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnorran.se%2Fnyheter%2Fblaljus-nyheter%2Fdrev-knarkliga-pa-natet-har-ar-huvudmannen-371642&edit-text=

Apparenly an professionally run operation. No evidence left on shipped products. But the police just camped at some mailing locations and found them this way.

This might have caused the third largest Swedish bank to run a negative full page Bitcoin ad in Swedish newspaper(!)
The article is a full page ad, marked as "sponsored content".



Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: unamis76 on June 13, 2015, 11:09:43 PM
Same old story all over again: They should tell us how much swedish krona has been used in the last few years for illegal activities. But no, they just focus on Bitcoin ::)


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: Randian Hero on June 13, 2015, 11:25:10 PM
Same old story all over again: They should tell us how much swedish krona has been used in the last few years for illegal activities. But no, they just focus on Bitcoin ::)

Actually the focus was not that much on Bitcoin. They said the coins were funneled through what I think is the bank account of BitStamp. Also I read some claims saying the bust was the second largest in the country. I can't imagine it being very big compared to busts in the US though.


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: bryant.coleman on June 15, 2015, 09:27:16 AM
The police department is of the opinion that the drug ring has been operating from at least 2007 (when Bitcoin wasn't even invented). They began using the dark net to sell their product from 2013 onward. According to the cops, they were shipping several thousand packages every year, but it is not sure how many of them were sold through the dark net sites.


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: S4VV4S on June 15, 2015, 11:03:37 AM
Article: http://norran.se/nyheter/blaljus-nyheter/drev-knarkliga-pa-natet-har-ar-huvudmannen-371642

Google translated to English here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnorran.se%2Fnyheter%2Fblaljus-nyheter%2Fdrev-knarkliga-pa-natet-har-ar-huvudmannen-371642&edit-text=

Apparenly an professionally run operation. No evidence left on shipped products. But the police just camped at some mailing locations and found them this way.

This might have caused the third largest Swedish bank to run a negative full page Bitcoin ad in Swedish newspaper(!)
The article is a full page ad, marked as "sponsored content".



I have read the translated version from google but I didn't see the part on how the were arrested.
Are you saying that the police arrested them by staking some mail locations?

Also, the article doesn't really say much about the specific case.
They talk more about dark markets and how they work.
It almost looks like a promotion ::)


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: ShamrockHannah on June 15, 2015, 11:32:32 AM
It's all propaganda. They're trying so  desperately to distract people from the futuristic technology that is Bitcoin.

Here is another example of a spin-doctored article against our Bitcoin:
https://leaprate.com/2015/02/bitcoin-funded-terror-attack-foiled-by-merseyside-police-as-man-tries-to-buy-ricin-via-dark-web/ (https://leaprate.com/2015/02/bitcoin-funded-terror-attack-foiled-by-merseyside-police-as-man-tries-to-buy-ricin-via-dark-web/)


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: Fabrizio89 on June 15, 2015, 11:33:56 AM
And the media is still all about that "Bitcoin is anonymous", "Bitcoin is untraceable"  ::)


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: eyeknock on June 15, 2015, 11:40:32 AM
It's all propaganda. They're trying so  desperately to distract people from the futuristic technology that is Bitcoin.

Here is another example of a spin-doctored article against our Bitcoin:
https://leaprate.com/2015/02/bitcoin-funded-terror-attack-foiled-by-merseyside-police-as-man-tries-to-buy-ricin-via-dark-web/ (https://leaprate.com/2015/02/bitcoin-funded-terror-attack-foiled-by-merseyside-police-as-man-tries-to-buy-ricin-via-dark-web/)

thats the words "propaganda"&"distract", you got it, im 100% with you, thats all they want in my own opinion.

And the media is still all about that "Bitcoin is anonymous", "Bitcoin is untraceable"  ::)

ofc man as i sayd thats all they want, bombard us with bad news, but beleive me, thay will not have success ;)


Title: Re: High volume drug ring operating on the dark web with Bitcoin busted up north
Post by: Hazir on June 15, 2015, 12:01:26 PM
And the media is still all about that "Bitcoin is anonymous", "Bitcoin is untraceable"  ::)
Yeah media are manipulating and bending the facts about bitcoin, no surprise there. When information like: 'bitcoin is anonymous - therefore used by criminals' is convenient for anti bitcoin propaganda is is all over the place. Then how they managed to find and trace another black market, bitcoin is anonymous and untraceable after all, magic?  I hope intelligent readers see through anti bitcoin propaganda.