Silk Road

• B.C. man faces extradition to the U.S. for alleged operations on Silk Road website

  A Vancouver man accused of drug trafficking and money laundering through a website on the deep web is fighting extradition to the United States.

  Crime

  Feb 10, 2025
  
• Canadian accused of working for dark web marketplace ‘Silk Road’ extradited to New York

  Roger Thomas Clark, arrested in December 2015 in Thailand, arrived in New York on Friday.

  Crime

  Jun 15, 2018
  
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• How the dark web is used to sell illegal drugs like fentanyl

  It's a place to buy and sell illegal drugs, human organs and weapons, and it's all taking place in the shadowy depths of the Internet known as the dark web.

  Canada

  May 24, 2017
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• China promises more than $100 billion for Silk Road project

  Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $124 billion on Sunday for his new Silk Road plan to forge a path of peace, inclusiveness and free trade, and called for the abandonment of old models based on rivalry and diplomatic power games.

  Money

  May 14, 2017
• Silk Road founder sentenced to life in prison

  A man who created the underground drug-selling website Silk Road was sentenced to life in prison by a judge who cited six deaths from drugs bought on his site and five people he tried to have killed.

  Tech

  May 29, 2015
• Federal agents accused of stealing $1M in Bitcoin during Silk Road probe

  Two former federal agents are accused of using their positions and savvy computer skills to siphon more than $1 million in digital currency from the illegal black market Silk Road website.

  Tech

  Mar 31, 2015
• Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht convicted on drug charges

  A San Francisco man was swiftly convicted Wednesday on charges he created a multimillion-dollar marketplace for illegal drugs and other contraband on the Internet.

  Crime

  Feb 5, 2015
• US man charged with helping run Silk Road 2.0 website

  A man was charged Tuesday with helping run what investigators called one of the most sophisticated and widely used criminal marketplaces on the Internet.

  Crime

  Jan 21, 2015
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• Europol raid shuts down over 400 ‘dark web’ drug sites

  Europol says 17 people have been arrested in an international crackdown on underground websites selling illegal drugs.

  Tech

  Nov 7, 2014
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• CEO of Bitcoin exchange arrested in ‘Silk Road’ drug prosecution

  U.S. prosecutors say two men are charged with conspiring to commit money laundering by selling more than $1 million in Bitcoins to users of the black market website Silk Road, which lets users buy illegal drugs anonymously.

  Tech

  Jan 27, 2014