{"id":13916,"date":"2021-11-03T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/silk-road-2-admin-forfeits-667000-in-bitcoin-to-british-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:54:04","slug":"silk-road-2-admin-forfeits-667000-in-bitcoin-to-british-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/silk-road-2-admin-forfeits-667000-in-bitcoin-to-british-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road 2 Admin Forfeits $667,000 in Bitcoin to British Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to reports, the founder of the now-defunct Silk Road 2 marketplace has forfeited more than half-billion dollars worth of bitcoin to British authorities. White\u2019s Silk Road 2 admin handle was called \u201cCthulhu,\u201d and he also dubbed himself as \u201cDPR2.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Silk Road 2 Admin Thomas White Forfeits $667K in Bitcoin<\/h2>\n

In April 2019, Bitcoin.com News reported<\/a> on Thomas White, the lead administrator of the now-defunct Silk Road 2 darknet marketplace (DNM), getting sentenced to five years in prison. The Silk Road 2 (SR2) DNM was the original Silk Road\u2019s successor, after the first Silk Road administrator was taken into custody. The 26-year-old White ran the DNM under the names \u201cCthulhu\u201d and \u201cDPR2,\u201d and was eventually tracked when he ordered a package from the SR2 marketplace itself.<\/p>\n

Sky News reports<\/a> that White has been forced to hand over \u00a3490,000 ($667,000) worth of bitcoin from his net proceeds. The prosecutors continued to monitor White\u2019s finances after he was jailed and the National Crime Agency (NCA) believes he made roughly \u00a31.5 million ($2,048,100) from his SR2 operations. Law enforcement estimates<\/a> that the SR2 pulled in roughly $8 million in bitcoin every month after it launched.<\/p>\n

National Crime Agency Claims White Was a \u2018Well-Regarded Member of the Original Silk Road Hierarchy\u2019<\/h2>\n

Reportedly, SR2 did not have any official affiliations with the original Silk Road market, but appeared online approximately 30 days after the site was seized in October 2013. At the court hearing last week, White was described as being affiliated with members of the original Silk Road and the NCA says he used his reputation to his advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas White was a well-regarded member of the original Silk Road hierarchy,\u201d Tyrone Surgeon, an NCA spokesperson said. \u201cHe used this to his advantage when the original site was closed down and profited significantly from his criminal activity. This case proves that crime doesn\u2019t pay \u2013 not only has he spent the last two years in prison, he now has to hand over nearly \u00a3500,000,\u201d Surgeon added.<\/p>\n

So far White has served two years of his five-year and four-month prison sentence alongside forfeiting the $667,000 worth of bitcoin. The SR2 administrator was charged with money laundering, drug trafficking, and possession of illegal images. \u201cThis has been a complex, international investigation and highlights that we will use every tool at our disposal to disrupt organised criminals from profiting from their crime,\u201d Surgeon added in his statement.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the SR2 administrator Thomas White being forced to hand over more than a half-billion dollars worth of bitcoin? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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According to reports, the founder of the now-defunct Silk Road 2 marketplace has forfeited more than half-billion dollars worth of bitcoin to British authorities. White\u2019s Silk Road 2 admin handle was called \u201cCthulhu,\u201d and he also dubbed himself as \u201cDPR2.\u201d Silk Road 2 Admin Thomas White Forfeits $667K in Bitcoin In April 2019, Bitcoin.com News…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}