Cornelis Jan Slomp, the man behind SuperTrips. LinkedIn/Maikel CJ Slomp

Cornelis Jan Slomp, the Dutchman who became the biggest seller of illegal drugs on the so-called Deep Web marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Slomp sold MDMA, ecstasy, cocaine, benzodiazepine, amphetamine, LSD, and marijuana in vast quantities on Silk Road, working from his home in Holland and using the account name SuperTrips.

What made Slomp such a big target wasn't the range of drugs he sold (lots of sellers offer a variety of items on the Deep Web, a section of the internet hidden from most web browsers), but the sheer amount he was able to sell.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Slomp boasted on his seller profile on Silk Road that he had "big stockpiles of product, you literally cannot empty me out."

Vocativ called Slomp "the Pablo Escobar of Silk Road" because of his high level of sales. It said he received 385,000 bitcoins for his drugs, worth about $170 million (£111 million). That's higher than any other seller on Silk Road.

In 2013, Slomp was arrested after arriving in Miami, ready to get into his rented Lamborghini. Court documents show that investigators discovered his fingerprints on DVD cases used to ship drugs in 2012 and had managed to track him down.

The man behind SuperTrips pleaded guilty to selling drugs in 2014, accepting a plea agreement for a more lenient sentence than the maximum of 40 years he could have faced, the Chicago Tribune reported. He told US prosecutors he was prepared to testify against alleged Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, but ultimately he was not called as a witness.

The Sun-Times reports that Slomp told US District Judge Matthew Kennelly on Thursday that he felt "ashamed and embarrassed" of his crimes. He went on to tell the judge, "I don't think any of this could have happened without the anonymity of the internet.

It was recommended that Slomp serve his time in a Dutch prison.