Tweet A Canadian incarcerated near Montreal, Jason Berry, is facing extradition to the US over charges that, from jail, he trafficked fentanyl all over the world. According to the extradition request, the fentanyl sold by Berry caused the death of several Americans, as well as Canadians from overdoses. Berry is serving a 12 year sentence […]
Tweet A Vancouver man, Sinara Nou, was sentenced last week to 52 months in jail following a conviction in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in HK$13 million worth of cannabis through the Hong Kong International Airport in two suitcases. In February 2019, Nou was arrested while attempting to smuggle cannabis buds into Hong Kong […]
Tweet Super kingpin fentanyl dealer Aaron Shamo, who was an Eagle Scout and a Mormon, was found guilty at the end of August in Utah of continuing a criminal enterprise on the darknet and selling fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl. He is expected to be sentenced to life imprisonment under the “super kingpin” laws, similar […]
Tweet A 22-year-old California man named Wyatt Pasek, was sentenced on August 26, 2019, to more than 17 years in prison in California for selling fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Pasek sold drugs on the darknet on a marketplace under the name “OxyGod”, and was paid with Bitcoin. The proceeds of […]
Tweet Marisol Franco, the common law spouse of Caesar Peralta who is known as “Caesar the Abuser”, was arrested in the Dominican Republic yesterday in connection with charges against her spouse of alleged money laundering. Peralta was designated as a drug kingpin last week by the US Treasury and is being sought by the US […]
Tweet On August 20, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC“) designated Caesar Emilio Peralta, a national from the Dominican Republic and the criminal organization he is said to control, as significant narcotics traffickers and a drug kingpin under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Alleged money launderer and trafficker Peralta is known as […]
Tweet A major drug bust in Washington State by Homeland Security Investigations and by the RCMP in British Columbia, played out exactly how former DEA agent, Andrew Hogan, described some drugs were being trafficked between British Columbia and Washington State by the Sinaloa cartel. In his book, “Hunting El Chapo“, Hogan describes how the Sinaloa used […]
Tweet FinCEN has released an advisory for banks to become aware of, and assess the purchase and trafficking of fentanyl online for financial crime compliance. Fentanyl is imported in bulk from Mexican cartels and follows the same typology as typical TCOs and money laundering activities. It is also imported from China via online sales on […]
Tweet 4th Anniversary of Silk Road founder’s Sentencing The end of May marked the 4th Anniversary of the sentencing of Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the now-defunct darknet marketplace website based in California, called Silk Road that operated on TOR, which brokered sales of illegal goods and services, including narcotics like […]
Tweet Privacy violation vs public interest One of Germany’s heads of data protection and privacy agencies says the publication by newspapers of the secretly-filmed video of Austrian politician Heinz-Christian Strache discussing potential bribes for contracts while on vacation, violates privacy law and may be criminal, as well as harmful to political culture. Â The video, filmed […]