Ex-translator for the American army has used Bitcoin for drug trafficking

A former translator for the U.s. army, has been convicted and sentenced for trafficking in fentanyl. According to Reuters, the used, the Iraqi translator for the already rolled-up to the Alpha Bay before the sale of the drug. He has accepted the payment in cryptovaluta.
This trade eventually led to the death of American marines. Alaa Mohammed Allawi well-known during the trial, and to prepare themselves for a term of imprisonment of 30 years.

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Darknet

From the hidden part of the internet, it is also known as darknet mentioned, did Allawi for the drugs to wear off. It is sold under a different oxycodone will be created with the fentanyl.
Fentanyl is a morfinomimeticum, a substance that has the same effects as morphine but many times stronger.
In 2017, took a Us marine to one of the pills, which cost him his life. The Agent Will Glaspy returns compared to the Reuters translation:

“The darkweb, he knew pills, the fake pills are on the market. He did that with the fentanyl. These are sold to students, Allwai did not need to see other people.”
Will Glaspy

Encryption and the drug trade

The local and the (pseudo -) anonymous nature of bitcoin and other cryptomunten are ideally suited for operations in the drugswereld. The illegal online market places are lucrative and an attractive location for drug dealers.
Talis Putnins is the co-author of a comprehensive study of the university of Sydney, australia. He explains how to cryptomunten to be used.

“Cryptomunten it is an area of illegal drugshandele something else. In this world, and we have cash in the street on the line.”
Talis Putnins

According to Putnins online handelsplekken you will need two things. The first one is an anonymous way of communicating, and that can be achieved through the use of TOR. You can use this to your identity online, hide from it if you know what you are doing.
It can be used for innocent ordinary citizens, but by criminals. The same is true for number two: is there a way to have an anonymous way to make transactions. Let there be bitcoin and the other cryptomunten well suited for that role, they can be the perfect fill-in.
Putnins: ”that’s Why cryptovaluta is an essential part of the online drug trade has become.”

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