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A 34 year old Irish Bitcoin trader and his accomplish have been sentenced today 21st December at a Dublin court for running an online drug dealing operation on the Dark Web after they were placed under surveillance when Gardaí received confidential information about a computer IP address.

This lead the operation to follow the suspects’ car which tracked him to a business address and to the obtaining of a search warrant where Gardaí found both Mannion and O’ Connor on the premises along with a holdall containing the drugs, a vacuum packing machine, weighing scales, envelopes and labels for posting. 

Neil Mannion of Mount Drummond Avenue, Harold’s Cross, Dublin and Richard O’Connor of Clonskeagh Road, Clonskeagh, Dublin had both pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of LSD, amphetamine and cannabis resin worth €143,000 with intent to sell or supply at Bank House Business Centre, South Circular Road on November 5th 2014.

http://cointelegraph.uk/news/115927/irish-bitcoin-trader-sentenced-for-online-drug-dealing-on-deep-web-

The title is misleading. The guys are just drug traders selling drugs. Their business is not trading bitcoin.

Hi Ketariz, If you check out all the Irish newspapers articles on this today and reports from the courts one of them was a Bitcoin trader. How else would he have been converting €100,000s of Bitcoin he was receiving as payment?