That is the face behind a $40 MILLION Bitcoin exit scam on the Sheep Marketplace back in December of 2013. Looks like the average Joe you'd see buying donuts at the grocery store, eh?
BIGGEST EXIT SCAM IN DARKNET HISTORY
"At the time, the missing Bitcoins were worth around $40 million, almost four times the size of the recent Evolution exit scam. Thomas Jiřikovský was caught attempting to launder some of the money when he bought an expensive house and tried to transfer large sums money to his girlfriend’s bank account. When questioned, his girlfriend, Eva Bartošová, had no good explanation for the transfer into her account of some 900,000 Crowns (~$36,000 USD). This kicked off an investigation into the couple’s finances overall. The first thing they discovered was that transfers from the same sources had previously been larger."
Tomas Jirikovsky was captured, charged and is now serving his time at a Czech prison for multiple charges, some of which are drug related (I mean he did run a marketplace over on the darknet). He got 5 years. His girlfriend was also arrested for laundering money.
On top of that, there was a hack for 5,400 BTC earlier that led to a completely separate set of events.
"The U.S. government has seized $4.5 million from two Florida men who allegedly stole 5,400 bitcoins from illegal online drug sales site Sheep Marketplace in late 2013, shortly before the price of bitcoin hit its peak of around $1,200, according to forfeiture documents filed last week in Jacksonville, Florida."
Two 21 year olds were charged with stealing bitcoins and attempting to launder them.
What would you do with $40,000,000?
LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/c/AVILSD
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/05/30/mystery-solved-6-6-million-bitcoin-theft-that-brought-down-dark-web-site-tied-to-2-florida-men/#60fc794d23d5
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/05/31/2-florida-men-tied-to-the-sheep-marketplace-hack-exit-scam/
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/alleged-sheep-marketplace-owner-arrested-in-czech-republic/
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/03/27/breaking-sheep-marketplace-owner-arrested/
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/04/21/sheep-marketplace-owner-indicted-face-years-prison/
