Thailand to extradite Canadian arrested as 'adviser' to Silk Road website

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Thailand to extradite Canadian arrested as 'adviser' to Silk Road website
REUTERS

BANGKOK: -- A Canadian man arrested in Thailand over his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of the underground Silk Road website will be extradited to the United States next month, police said on Wednesday.

Thai police said they arrested Canadian Roger Thomas Clark last week, following a request for help from U.S. authorities.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Clark advised the website's creator, Ross Ulbricht, on ways to run the site, a platform for selling illegal drugs, and how to evade police.

Clark faces charges of narcotics conspiracy and money laundering, with a jail term of 30 years if found guilty.

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-usa-idUSKBN0TS0FC20151209


-- Reuters 2015-12-09

[samuibeachcomber]

meanwhile the thieves in wall street remain free running the white house.

[Strangebrew]

Typical

[ggt]

There are numerous states in the US where dealing drugs is now legal...Canada may soon legalize MJ...so throw that bad man into the brier patch...

[watcharacters]

There are numerous states in the US where dealing drugs is now legal...Canada may soon legalize MJ...so throw that bad man into the brier patch...

Are you referring to the legalization of possessing small quantities of marijuana?

Quite a leap in logic I'd say to claim "in the US where dealing drugs is now legal"

Come on and follow the bouncing ball please.

[thailanddogerator]

An adviser can go to jail ? ridiculous !

[benalibina]

How to evade the police....well his advice could come in handy for the US ambassador, when he will be charged for lese majeste.

[Inn Between]

The US government's DEA will continue to fight their useless "war on drugs" to the bitter end regardless of the financial and human costs involved and for the often wrong reasons with methods executed in the worst ways. This guy should have known better than to get involved with something that would become a target for the DEA. Hopefully, some common sense will prevail in the US justice system, and saner minds will realize that advising someone how to set up a web site is quite legal, regardless of the what's offered on it.

[cloghead]

oh yeah...I saw P.o.M. (Plural of Mongoose) on Koh Chang about 8 months ago

methinks the little weasel won't be able to worm his way out of this one by ratting out any of his compadres...