Russian court sentences kingpin of Hydra drug marketplace to life in prison
Stanislav Moiseyev, the man found guilty of being the kingpin of Hydra, a dark web drug marketplace, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Hydra was a Russian-language market that supplied more than a metric ton of narcotics and psychotropic substances to customers worldwide.
The dismantling of Hydra in 2022 led to the seizure of servers, infrastructure, and millions of dollars' worth of bitcoin, making it the largest crime forum at the time.