According to the court decision of the district court in Eastern California, the U.S. government withdrew nearly $9 million in the cryptocurrency, as well as luxury cars and real estate, totaling more than $12 million, belonging to committed suicide the owner of the darknet market AlphaBay Alexander Cases. This writes Bitcoin.com.

Closing AlphaBay, and other popular darknet market Hansa Market in 2017 was the result of coordinated efforts by international law enforcement agencies against the largest illegal marketplace. During the operation against AlphaBay was also established the identity of the administrator of the site – it was them 25-the summer citizen of Canada Alexander Kazes from Canada.

On 5 July last Kazes was arrested in Thailand, but some time after this he was found dead in a prison in Bangkok. Presumably Kazes has committed suicide.

All this time was the investigation of the circumstances of the work AlphaBay, the culmination of which was the decision of the court Fresno on civil asset forfeiture Cases, including large sums of money in cryptocurrencies.

In particular belonged to personally Cases accounts were confiscated and transferred to government-controlled address: 1605.0503851 BTC, 8309.271639 ETH 3691.98 ZEC, as well as unspeakable amount of XMR.

In addition, servers Alphabay 3203 293.79476862 was confiscated BTC from the server Alphabay 3164 — 43.05943697 BTC from the server Alphabay 8131 — 360.384477 ETH server Alphabay 10073 — 11993.15882 XMR.

In addition to this case, which is now closed, the Fresno court has also indicted several vendors, trading at Alphabay drugs.

Note that after a successful operation against the marketplace in the past year, the US authorities called it the closure of the largest-ever operation against darknet. It was also reported that AlphaBay for its size was ten times more than closed in 2013, the platform Silk Road, and the elimination of the market took place by direct order of President Donald trump.

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