{"id":4294,"date":"2017-09-19T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2017-09-19T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T11:57:24","slug":"law-enforcement-shuts-down-russias-biggest-darknet-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/law-enforcement-shuts-down-russias-biggest-darknet-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Enforcement Shuts Down Russia\u2019s Biggest Darknet Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Anonymous Marketplace aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepdotweb.com\/marketplace-directory\/listing\/ramp-russian-anonymous-marketplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RAMP<\/span><\/a> that has been selling drugs for bitcoin since 2012 was shut down by Russian law enforcement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Russian state-owned news agency TASS, deputy minister of interior affairs Mikhail Vanichkin has stated that the ministry has developed \u201ca set of measures aimed at detection and suppression of criminal activities related to distribution of synthetic drugs, potent substances, precursors and cocaine via the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vanichkin, however, did not disclose the particular methods that enabled the ministry to shut down the country\u2019s biggest darknet marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official data provided by the ministry of internal affairs, there have been 3,775 crimes committed with network technologies, and 1,345 online resources have been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>RAMP administrators earlier stated that the platform hosted transactions for 15 thousand users a day. In 2016, RAMP\u2019s turnover comprised 24 billion rubles (nearly $400 million).<\/p>\n<p>This July, darknet\u2019s biggest marketplace AlphaBay <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/20\/alphabay-online-crime-market-trump-response-240757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was shut down<\/a><\/span> under direct orders by U.S. President Donald Trump. The marketplace\u2019s administrator Alexander Kazes committed suicide after the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Anonymous Marketplace aka RAMP that has been selling drugs for bitcoin since 2012 was shut down by Russian law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[477,27],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-darknet","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"235","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}