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Three Years Later, Cops Are Still Arresting Silk Road Drug Lords
Romanian authorities have agreed to extradite two crooks that were part of a criminal organization named ItalianMafiaBrussels (IBM) that sold illegal drugs via the now defunct Silk Road and Silk Road 2.0 Dark Web marketplaces. The two…
The two suspects are Filip Lucian Simion, 23, and Leonardo Cristea, 25, both of Bucharest, Romania. Authorities arrested the two on May 3, 2016.
The arrests were coordinated by the FBI and Europol, during raids that took place simultaneously in four countries: the US, Belgium, Romania, and France.
Two other IMB members arrested in Belgium
Besides the crooks arrested in Romania, authorities arrested two other IMB members named Ymran Djavatkhanov and Andy Nestor, in Brussels, Belgium.
US officials have dropped extradition requests and will let Belgium authorities prosecute Djavatkhanov and Nestor, but have requested the extradition of the two IMB members arrested in Romania.
The US Department of Justice revealed today that ...
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