{"id":49164,"date":"2021-09-09T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49164"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:18:31","slug":"in-izhevsk-a-suspect-was-detained-over-the-creation-of-a-darknet-service-facilitating-contract-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-izhevsk-a-suspect-was-detained-over-the-creation-of-a-darknet-service-facilitating-contract-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"In Izhevsk, a suspect was detained over the creation of a darknet service facilitating contract killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Udmurtia detained the owner of an unnamed darknet service, suspected of organising contract killings. The regional Investigative Committee <a href=\\\"https:\/\/sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1608068\/\\\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, a 38-year-old resident of Izhevsk helped his clients locate hitmen across Russia, gathered information about potential victims, and procured and handed over weapons for carrying out the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the detainee&#8217;s involvement in the killing of a family in Vladimir Oblast, as well as preparations for the murder of a resident of Saint Petersburg, has been established. The service owner accepted payment in cryptocurrency and through electronic wallets registered to fronts.<\/p>\n<p>Searches were conducted at the suspect&#8217;s place of residence, during which police found around a thousand SIM cards and a large sum of cash.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened in connection with the murder and illicit arms trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities are deciding whether to press charges and remand him in custody. He will also be checked for involvement in other similar offences.<\/p>\n<p>In May, U.S. authorities arrested a resident of Tennessee suspected of organising a contract killing of his wife. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-resident-paid-for-his-wifes-murder-with-bitcoin-via-coinbase\">paid in bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Udmurtia police detained the owner of an unnamed darknet service suspected of organising contract killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1269,477,27],"class_list":["post-49164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-darknet","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49166,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49164\/revisions\/49166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}