FBI Shuts Down Silk Road 2

November 07, 2014 00:31

The Silk Road 2, the site that sprang up after the original was shut down by the FBI in October 2013, is down, after being seized by law enforcement.

According to a notice put on the Silk Road 2 site, it was shut down by a joint operation by the FBI, ICE Homeland Security Investigations, and European law enforcement agencies acting through Europol and Eurojust.

The FBI arrested Blake Benthall, who allegedly ran the site under the handle Defcon, yesterday in San Francisco.

"Blake Benthall attempted to resurrect Silk Road, a secret website that law enforcement seized last year, by running Silk Road 2.0, a nearly identical criminal enterprise," Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

"Lets be clear, this Silk Road, in whatever form, is the road to prison."

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