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January 27, 2022 06:16 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904803/deepdotweb-operator-sentenced-money-laundering-bitcoin-darknet-fbi
DeepDotWeb operator sentenced to eight years for money laundering
In the culmination of a two-year legal process, the former operator of dark web index site DeepDotWeb was handed a sentence of 97 months in prison for money laundering on Tuesday.
The sentence was issued to Tal Prihar, an Israeli national, by a judge of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The judgment from the court ordered Prihar to forfeit $8.4 million in cash, along with an ASUS laptop, a black iPhone, and his accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges Binance, Kraken and OKCoin.
The DeepDotWeb site started operating in 2013, operated by Prihar and another Israeli citizen Michael Phan, who is a co-defendant in the case. The site was hosted on the open internet but provided links to the .onion domains of dark web...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904803/deepdotweb-operator-sentenced-money-laundering-bitcoin-darknet-fbi
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