Authorities suspect Lin operates one of the largest drug rings on the internet. The 23-year-old started his illegal business in October 2020, when he was just a teenager. Since then, Incognito Market has sold more than $100 million worth of misbranded drugs. and illicit narcotics, adding alprazolam, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, LSD, MDMA, methamphetamines, and oxycodone. The site also sold fentanyl, a deadly drug, with the wisdom or wisdom of the buyer. In one case, an investigator purchased what purported to be oxycodone, but lab tests showed they were fentanyl pills.
The online page featured a crypto banking service called “Live Bank,” with secure wallets that allowed merchants and consumers to successfully make anonymous transactions. Live Bank is said to have made more than $80 million in Bitcoin and Monero transactions. Sellers paid an upfront payment to identify a store and crypto wallet, and Incognito Market charged a 5% payment for each transaction. In total, Lin allegedly earned enough to generate millions of dollars in profit after expenses, such as workers’ compensation, server procurement, and general maintenance.
“Drug traffickers who think they can operate outside the dark web law are wrong,” said U. S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, on this case. As Rui-Siang Lin, the architect of Incognito, put it, a $100 million dark web. mission aimed at smuggling deadly drugs into the United States and around the world. The long arm of the law extends to the dark web, and we will bring to justice those who hide there to hide their crimes. “
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