A former interpreter for the United States navy forces was sentenced to 30 years in jail for dealing fentanyl, which led to the loss of life of a U.S. Marine.

Drugs paid for with cryptocurrencies

According to a Reuters report from Oct. 3, a former Iraqi U.S interpreter was sentenced to 30 years in federal jail with out the chance of parole for utilizing the darknet to promote fentanyl.

Alaa Mohammed Allawi pleaded responsible to the drug costs and acknowledged utilizing the now-defunct on-line darknet market Alpha Bay to promote quite a spate of exhausting medicative dru, resembling oxycodone laced with fentanyl, whereas acceptive monetary system imagination in cryptocurrencies.

In 2019, Allawi’s drug exploits finally led to the loss of life of a Marine, who took for sure one of his tablets at a celebration whereas stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Special agent, Will Glaspy, stated:

“From his use of the dark web, to his cloak-and-dagger manufacturing of counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, to his drug gross sales targeting college students, Allawi operated with little concern for the people in our communities.”

Crypto and unlawful drug gross gross sales

Cointelegraph beforehand reported that in accordance with Ciphertrace’s report on Anti-Money Laundering, all but all medicative dru bought on darknet marketplaces are bought with cryptocurrencies. The darknet gives an setting that’s engaging, profitable and, for au fond the most half, protected for unlawful drug traffickers.

Professor Talis Putnins, co-author of an authoritative University of Technology Sydney report on cryptocurrency and unlawful medicative dru, had this to say about cryptocurrencies: