A Russian courtsentenced a criminal offense boss explained by state media as the creator of taken apart darknet drug marketplace Hydra to life in jail on organized crime and drug charges.Founded in 2015, Hydra sold controlled substances, taken credit card data, counterfeit currency and phony identity documents.
The identities of its 17 million consumer accounts and 19,000 supplier accounts were masked by the Tor file encryption network.Hydra was approximated to have deserved over $1.3 billion when German authorities shut it down, took control of its servers and seized its bitcoin properties in April 2022.
The identity of its founder is not known to the public.The state-run TASS and Interfax news firms, citing anonymous police authorities, claimed that Stanislav Moiseyev, who was sentenced on drug and arranged criminal activity charges on Monday, was Hydras founder.The Moscow regional chapter of the Prosecutor Generals Office saidthat Moiseyev and 15 of his accomplices ran an arranged criminal group in Russia and Belarus between 2015 and October 2018.
The Moscow Regional Court found Moiseyev and the 15 accomplices guilty of running or being part of an organized criminal group, in addition to drug production and trafficking.The prosecutors workplace did not publicly link Moiseyev to Hydra.Moiseyev was sentenced to life in prison, while the 15 accomplices were sentenced to in between 8 years and 23 years in prison.
Moiseyev was also fined 4 million rubles ($37,780) and his accomplices were fined a combined 16 million rubles ($151,120).
The prosecutors office stated police officers took practically one metric lots of narcotics and psychotropic substances during raids that took apart the criminal group.Authorities seized the group members properties and vehicles as part of their sentences.The sentences undergo appeals.