1 darknet drug site AlphaBay, which went offline on July 5, was already widely assumed to have been taken out by authorities. The chief of Thailand’s narcotics police told reporters that Cazes hanged himself in jail just prior to a scheduled court hearing. Drug sales continued as usual as investigators logged each transaction and sent shipment details to local police forces in the relevant area. The biggest effort for us was to get the site going on a way that nobody noticed it was us.”He noted with satisfaction the online rumours he said were already swirling around about other darknet drug marketplaces. The success of this operation doesn’t mean that darknet drug markets will stay down for long.

Source: National Post July 20, 2017 19:07 UTC