Key Silk Road figure extradited from Thailand to New York

 

Whether he goes by Roger Thomas Clark, Variety Jones, Plural of Mongoose or Cimon, one of the top players in the drug-dealing website Silk Road will face a judge. Clark has been extradited to New York from Thailand, some two and a half years after being arrested in that country.

 

According to multiple investigations, Clark was a key figure in developing Silk Road. While his aliases have yet to be confirmed, prosecutors feel that they have been able to connect enough of the dots to link Clark to a slew of illegal activities conducted through the site. Clark is said to be behind the site’s operations and was involved in site activities such as hiring and managing computer programmers and advising the site’s owner, Ross Ulbricht, on how to evade law enforcement investigations.

 

After his arrest on December 3, 2015, Clark told Ars Technica that he was innocent, and that there was no evidence connecting him to the crimes. Federal authorities are now trying to connect him to the aliases, which could result in additional charges. The authorities are said to have seized a journal kept by Ulbricht where multiple remarks are recorded that could prove to be problematic for Clark.

 

Full story: https://coingeek.com/key-silk-road-figure-extradited-thailand-new-york/

 

-- COINGEEK 2018-06-18

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