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Operator of Crypto-Fueled Dark Web Drug Market Sentenced to 30 Years
A Taiwanese national who built a crypto-fueled dark web narcotics empire worth over $105 million while moonlighting as a cybercrime trainer for Caribbean police has been sentenced to three decades in federal prison. Rui-Siang Lin received the 30-year sentence for operating Incognito Market under the pseudonym "Pharoah," overseeing a digital drug bazaar that sold more than one ton of narcotics, including fentanyl-laced pills, to over 400,000 buyers worldwide between October 2020 and March 2024, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. U.S. District Judge Colleen ... (full story)
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