The Kingdom has fallen...
Kingdom Market providef a choice of three coins that can be used for deposits, withdrawals and payments. Bitcoin, Litecoin or Monero transaction charges are calculated separately.
“The Kingdom Market darknet site allowed criminals to move dangerous drugs in and out of our communities and use the digital world to hide their illegal activities,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Melissa McFadden of IRS Criminal Investigation’s (CI) St. Louis Field Office. “Collaboration with our global law enforcement partners is the key to disrupting drug trafficking, money laundering and the other illicit activities that occur on the darknet.”
A Slovakian man was indicted this week on charges that accuse him of running a darknet market that sold drugs and stolen personal information. Alan Bill, 30, of Bratislava, was charged by complaint in U.S. District Court in St. Louis December 14. Bill was arrested December 15 at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey by agents with the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations. In an indictment Wednesday, a grand jury charged Bill with ten felonies: conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, four counts of distribution of a controlled substance, conspiracy to commit identity theft and fraud related to identification documents, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, misuse of a passport and money laundering conspiracy.
The investigators traced crypto sent from Kingdom's wallet to Bill's accounts on undisclosed exchanges. The IP address used to access the accounts had also been used to access the market's Reddit account.
A search of Bill's Google account resulted in the discovery of passwords and seed phrases for multiple cryptocurrency wallets. One of the wallets had received approximately $4,590 in bitcoin from Kingdom's wallet. The Bitcoin was then sent to an account under Bill's name on an undisclosed exchange.
In Bill's email account, the investigators found several files containing the word "Vendor." They also found a video that showed someone accessing the market's back end.
This dude had horrible operational security.... And the US loads up more ammunition to attack bitcoin and the eco-system....
"Undisclosed exchange...."
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