The owner of the Sheep Marketplace was arrested while trying to buy a luxury home

Thomas Jiřikovský, the owner of one of the most popular websites, darknet, was arrested for laundering about $ 40 million. The "Sheep Marketplace" was one of the biggest scams in the history of the dark internet.Sheep Marketplace Sheep Marketplace

Following the arrest of the owner of Silk Road,  Ross Ulbricht, in 2013 - Sheep Markeplace became the next famous website in the Darknet anonymous underground market, which specialized in selling illegal products, mainly drugs.

A few weeks ago, the Sheep Marketplace he suddenly disappeared and was shut down by his owner, who was suspected of Bitcoins theft, worth 40 million dollars, when in Bitcoin correspondence had the maximum monetary value in the market.

Shortly after this fraud with Bitcoins, a darknet commentator, Gwern Branwen, revealed the owner, consequently identified as a suspect owner of the site, Thomas Jiřikovský. Jiřikovský forgot to hide his identity and home address from the Internet when his Facebook page was revealed.

However, immediately after revealing his identity, Jiřikovský refused to participate in the Sheep Marketplace.

And while investigating stolen money from the online market, the Czech police noticed a strange move from a suspect young developer who tried to buy a luxury home worth 8,7 million Czech crowns ($ 345.000 US dollars) in Lusatia, an area in the Czech Republic, in the name of his grandfather.

Additional research revealed that last January, a new bank account of 26 Eva Bartošová received the enormous amount of almost 900.000 crowns from a foreign exchange company Bitcoin. However, the young woman was unable to justify the origin of the money.

According to the media in the Czech Republic , Eva Bartošová is the wife of Thomas Jiřikovský, who helped him transfer the stolen money through her recently created bank account.

A branch of the Czech police involved in financial fraud investigated Jiřikovský and found that the house had been bought entirely with Bitcoin.

And do not forget that two weeks ago, another great buying and selling website in Deep Web with the name Evolution disappeared with rumors saying his owners might have deceived their thousands of clients and stole 12 millions of dollars in Bitcoin.

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