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Sentenced to life in prison, Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of "Silk Road", the largest drug trafficking site on the "Dark Web"

2025-01-22 17:13:29Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Sentenced to life in prison, Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of "Silk
Ross Ulbricht

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who ran the "Silk Road," the dark web marketplace site where illegal drugs were sold.

Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York of a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Trump defended Ulbricht's cause, joining libertarians who said the sentence was an example of government overreach. On Tuesday, he said he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had pardoned her son.

The Dark Web site Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.

Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking.

During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, located on the hidden "dark web," sold more than $200 million in drugs anonymously.

Prosecutors said he also sought six contract killings, including one against a former Silk Road employee, although they said there was no evidence that any killings were actually carried out.

"Those who worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern weaponization of the government against me," Trump said in a post on his Social Truth page on Tuesday. "He has been sentenced to two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"

Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to a character in the 1987 film The Princess Bride.

The market itself took its name from the historic trade routes spanning Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa.

The site gained notoriety through media reports and online chatter. But users can only access the site through Tor - a system that allows people to use the web without revealing who they are or where they are located.

Court documents from the FBI said the site had just under a million registered users, but investigators said they did not know how many of them were active.

Ulbricht was arrested at a San Francisco public library in 2013 while allegedly chatting online with someone he thought was a colleague but was actually an undercover federal agent.


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