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.
Following the arrest of the owner of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, in 2013 – Sheep Markeplace became the next famous website in the darknet's anonymous underground market, which specialized in selling illegal productof, and 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, thus identifying as the suspected owner of the website, Thomas Jiřikovský. Jiřikovský forgot to hide his identity and home address from the Internet when his page was exposed on Facebook.
However, immediately after revealing his identity, Jiřikovský refused to participate in the Sheep Marketplace.
And while an investigation was being conducted into the stolen money from the online market, Czech police noticed a strange move by a suspicious young developer who attempted to buy a luxury home worth 8,7 million Czech crowns ($345.000 USD) in Lusatia, a region in the Czech Republic, in his grandfather's name .
Επιπρόσθετη έρευνα αποκάλυψε ότι τον Ιανουάριο του περασμένου έτους, ένας νέος τραπεζικός λογαριασμός της 26χρονης Eva Bartošová δέχθηκε το τεράστιο ποσό των σχεδόν 900.000 κορωνών από μια ξένη εταιρεία ανταλλακτηρίου Bitcoin. Ωστόσο, η νεαρή woman δεν ήταν σε θέση να δικαιολογήσει την προέλευση των χρημάτων.
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 amid rumors that its owners may have defrauded their thousands of customers and stolen $12 million in Bitcoins.
