UK police department confiscates over $6M from crypto drug dealer
A drug dealer caught with $6.7 million in Crypto currency and $1.4 million worth of cocaine has lost the millions of dollars he made on the dark web in a record confiscation of its kind by the West Yorkshire financial Crime department . The 42-year-old Simon Barclay ran a drugs empire from the town of Huddersfield, wherein he operated a marketplace on the dark web and mailed illegal substances across the UK in exchange for Crypto currency, the BBC reports. “Barclay used 21st century technology to run his large scale drugs supply network. Ironically though, it was his attempts to stay hidden by using the dark web which brought him to our attention,” said the head of the Yorkshire and Humber regional economic and cyber Crime Unit. Both Kirklee police and Yorkshire and Humber Regional Cyber Crime Unit were informed of Barclay’s dark web activity after the UK’s Dark Web Intelligence Collection and Exploitation team (DICE) tracked him down. Police stopped the crypt...