{"id":19108,"date":"2024-12-02T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/founder-of-hydra-store-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:18:34","slug":"founder-of-hydra-store-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/founder-of-hydra-store-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Hydra Store Sentenced to Life Imprisonment in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced Stanislav Moiseev, the founder of a store on the darknet marketplace Hydra, to life imprisonment and a fine of 4 million rubles, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/russia\/995517\">Interfax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen of Moiseev&#8217;s accomplices received sentences ranging from eight to 23 years, with fines totaling 16 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>All individuals involved in the case were found guilty of organizing a criminal community and the production and distribution of drugs on a particularly large scale.<\/p>\n<p>The state has confiscated the convicts&#8217; vehicles, land plots, and real estate. The court also maintained the seizure of assets to enforce the fines.<\/p>\n<p>Hydra is one of the world&#8217;s largest darknet marketplaces. According to U.S. authorities, from January 2016 to March 2022, wallets controlled by the platform received cryptocurrencies worth over $5 billion. In 2021, it accounted for 75% of all darknet-related crypto transactions, amounting to at least \u20ac1.23 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2022, German police confiscated Hydra&#8217;s servers and seized 543 BTC, while the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>That same month, a U.S. court charged Russian Dmitry Pavlov in absentia with administering the darknet platform, providing hosting services, conspiracy to launder money, and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested Pavlov on separate charges of illegal drug distribution on a particularly large scale. During the investigation, law enforcement faced challenges as the suspect refused to disclose the password to his confiscated cryptocurrency wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced Stanislav Moiseev, the founder of a store on the darknet marketplace Hydra, to life imprisonment and a fine of 4 million rubles, as reported by Interfax. Fifteen of Moiseev&#8217;s accomplices received sentences ranging from eight to 23 years, with fines totaling 16 million rubles. All individuals involved in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,44,477,1720,27],"class_list":["post-19108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-cybercrime","tag-darknet","tag-hydra","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}