A United States court docket has ordered Christopher Bania, who just lately pleaded responsible to drug distribution, to surrender virtually 17 Bitcoin (BTC) — price roughly $150,000 at press time.
The plea, order and sentencing
Per the Oct. 19 order from a court docket in Wisconsin, Bania might want to forfeit “Approximately 16.91880054 Bitcoin seized from Bania’s ‘Local Bitcoins’ account.” Though price roughly $153,100 as of publication, it’s a lot lower than the 124 BTC that the court docket is returning to the defendant, alongside varied different cryptocurrencies and over $50,000 in money seized from his residence upon arrest.
Though initially charged with cash laundering, importation of managed substances and sustaining a drug property, Bania’s plea on Sept. 6 was to the one cost of possession of managed substances with intent to distribute, which carries a most sentence of 20 years in jail.
Bania’s plea admits to promoting marijuana, cocaine, MDMA and LSD on the darkish internet. However, he denies distributing the methamphetamines, heroin and cocaine base that authorities additionally discovered at his residence.
U.S. border patrol initially launched the investigation into Bania’s dealings after intercepting two packages from Belgium containing MDMA. Investigators have been capable of hint Bania’s use of darkish internet distribution networks due to his transaction notebooks, which the court docket filings describe as “meticulous.”
Sentencing is presently scheduled for Dec. 9.
Other latest darkish internet prosecutions within the U.S.
A pair in California pleaded responsible to comparable fees in August, as Cointelegraph reported on the time.
Near the top of July, a Florida man admitted to working a large opioid distribution community on-line. The court docket in that occasion fined him over $four million.
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