{"id":60148,"date":"2022-04-14T23:36:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60148"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:43:06","slug":"hydra-administrator-remanded-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hydra-administrator-remanded-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydra administrator remanded in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 April, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow <a href=\"https:\/\/mos-gorsud.ru\/rs\/meshchanskij\/services\/cases\/criminal-materials\/details\/f4021dc0-b97e-11ec-b5e4-a5b4d07710b1?respondent=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2+%D0%94.\">arrested<\/a> Dmitry Pavlov, whom authorities call the administrator of the dark-net marketplace Hydra.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, Pavlov is charged with illegal drug trafficking in particularly large quantities.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s order to remand him in custody has not yet taken effect.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, Pavlov faces 15 to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, the Northern District Court of California <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/u-s-charges-one-hydra-administrator\">charges<\/a> Dmitry Pavlov on administering Hydra, providing hosting services for it, conspiring to launder money and distributing drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian said at the time that American authorities had not contacted him, and that he learned of the charges from a BBC journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hydra-and-the-garantex-cryptocurrency-exchange-sanctioned-by-the-united-states\">sanctions against Hydra<\/a>, and German police confiscated the marketplace&#8217;s servers and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/german-police-confiscated-hydra-servers-and-seized-543-btc\">seized 543 BTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 April, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested Dmitry Pavlov, whom authorities call the administrator of the dark-net marketplace Hydra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,477,1720,27],"class_list":["post-60148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-darknet","tag-hydra","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60148","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=60148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60150,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60148\/revisions\/60150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}