The American non-profit research center RAND Corp. He published a study on the development of drug trafficking after the closure of Silk Road trading platform. The study was commissioned by the Dutch government and showed that all attempts by the state to stop the drug trade online failed.
As the authors of the report said illegal kriptovalyutnye markets "in recent years have grown substantially, but not exponentially" and today drug dealers turnover of millions of dollars every month. The vast majority of transactions on these trading platforms As for the purchase and sale of drugs, in particular, the cannabinoids, stimulants and Ecstasy group.
The researchers note that more and more drug dealers make bulk purchases on the Internet with the purpose of further off-line retail.
Recently, this problem has taken on global significance. So, in February of this year, deputy head of the Federal Service for Drug Control (Federal Drug Control Service of Russia) Dmitry Brawlers said that over the past two years, Russian drug dealers began to use cryptocurrency 20 times more often.
