قاعدة بيانات السوابق القضائية

الجرائم السيبرانية

الأفعال التي تمس بسرية البيانات والنظم الحاسوبية وسلامتها وتوافرها

• إنتاج/ توزيع/ حيازة أدوات تساعد على إساءة استخدام الحواسيب

استخدام الحاسوب للحصول على مكسب شخصي أو مالي

• انتهاك حقوق النشر / العلامة التجارية

جرائم المخدِّرات

الجرائم

• الاستيراد/ التصدير

غسل الأموال

الاتجار بالأسلحة النارية

الجرائم

• الاتجار غير المشروع

Operation Onymous

موجز لوقائع القضية

In November 2014, law enforcement and prosecutors in Europe and the US launched Operation Onymous, an international operation aimed at taking down online illegal markets and arresting vendors and administrators of such markets. The operation was coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), Eurojust, the FBI, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The operation culminated in the arrest of 17 individuals and the seizure of Bitcoins amounting to USD 1 million, drugs, gold and silver.

Among the marketplaces brought down were Silk Road 2.0, an online black market and used to sell drugs and other illegal items. In 2013, the FBI shut down its predecessor, Silk Road 1.0 and arrested its founder Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted in February 2015 in the US. Silk Road 2.0 was launched in November 2013 after the shutdown of its previous version. On 5 November 2015, the alleged administrator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, was arrested by the FBI in San Francisco. According to the FBI, as of September 2014, Silk Road 2.0 had sales of at least approximately $8 million per month and approximately 150,000 active users. As a part of the investigation, an undercover HIS agent infiltrated in the administration of Silk Road 2.0 and obtained access to restricted information.

Silk Road 2.0 and other online marketplaces shut down as part of this investigation were operated as TOR hidden services. The TOR (The Onion Router) network is a worldwide network that allows users to establish anonymous communication. A TOR hidden service does not reveal the IP address of the server used . TOR is used for both illicit and licit purposes, with the latter including members of the military as well as activists and journalists evading censorship.

Most transactions on the shuttered marketplaces were carried out in Bitcoins. Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency, i.e. there is no centralized authority and Bitcoin transactions are processed and validated by a peer-to-peer network. Bitcoin users are anonymity but all its transactions are stored in a public ledger. Information on Bitcoin users can be obtained from exchanges – institutions converting Bitcoin into other currencies or vice versa – and other points of intersection with the regulated financial system.

التعليقات والسمات الهامة

This case shows how criminals are able to use the internet to trade illegal goods and conceal the proceeds of illegal transactions. In particular, the use of Bitcoin and other digital currencies poses significant challenges in identifying the offenders.

Cooperation between law enforcement and judicial agencies as well as with the private sector contributed significantly to the success of this operation. In particular, obtaining data from Bitcoin exchanges and ISPs helped law enforcement erode Bitcoin’s anonymity. Swift international police and judicial cooperation allowed the investigators to obtain crucial information in a timely fashion and locate the offenders.

القضايا الشاملة

مسؤولية

من أجل

• الجريمة المكتملة

تعتمد على ...

• القصد الإجرامي

تشمل ...

• الجاني الرئيسي / الجناة الرئيسيون
• المشارك الميسِّر الشريك في الجرم

ارتكاب الأفعال الإجرامية

البلدان المشاركة

بلغاريا

تشيكيا

فنلندا

فرنسا

ألمانيا

هنغاريا

أيرلندا

لاتفيا

ليتوانيا

لكسمبرغ

هولندا

رومانيا

إسبانيا

السويد

سويسرا

المملكة المتحدة لبريطانيا العظمى وأيرلندا الشمالية

الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية

التحقيقات

تدابير التحقيق الخاصة بالحواسيب

• حجز/مصادرة المعدات و/أو البرامجيات الحاسوبية
• التحليل الجنائي عن بُعد

أساليب التحري الخاصة

• العملية السرية (العمليات السرية)/الهويات المنتحَلة/التسلل

التعليقات

Law enforcement in the US obtained information from Google, a Bitcoin exchange and the ISP hosting Silk Road 2.0.

 

التعاون الدولي

التدابير

• التعاون الدولي على إنفاذ القانون (بما في ذلك الإنتربول)

المدعى عليهم / المتهمون في المحكمة الابتدائية

المدعى عليه:
B.B., a/k/a “Defcon"
نوع الجنس:
ذكر
الجنسية:
أمريكي
السن:
26

Secret owner and operater of the Darknet website known as “Silk Road 2.0”.

الاتهامات/الادعاءات/القرارات

المدعى عليه:
B.B., a/k/a “Defcon"
تفاصيل التهم:

B.B. was charged with one count of conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking; one count of conspiring to commit computer hacking; one count of conspiring to traffic in fraudulent identification documents; and one count of money laundering conspiracy.

المصادر / الاقتباسات