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UK ‘El Chapo’ faces 120 years in US prison over bitcoin-for-drugs ring

Matthew Grimm, a.k.a. the ‘El Chapo of the Cotswolds,’ faces 120 years in jail for allegedly running a drugs ring that made $6M in bitcoin.

Buying darkweb drugs with crypto still a risk — even if you leave a review

The Australia RMIT study found over a third of drugs it bought with crypto were replaced or mixed with a substance unadvertised by sellers.

UK-based Mohammed Afzal must also hand back $1.3 million worth of property and a Mercedes SUV gained through illegal steroid smuggling.

Milomir Desnica raked in $18 million by selling more than 30kg of meth and a host of other drugs in exchange for various cryptocurrencies.

An undisclosed amount of crypto was among the property seized when Cheerish Noel Taylor and Robert James Fischer were arrested.