{"id":2875,"date":"2021-04-08T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T10:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T10:13:20","slug":"italian-man-arrested-after-allegedly-paying-hitman-in-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/italian-man-arrested-after-allegedly-paying-hitman-in-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian man arrested after allegedly paying hitman in BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Italian man was arrested because a hitman was suspected of paying <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/free-burrito-or-up-to-25k-in-bitcoin-chipotle-celebrates-national-burrito-day-with-btc-prizes.html\" class=\"rank-math-link\">BTC<\/a> worth of 10,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/euros\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">euros<\/a> for his previous partner's murder.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect went into the darkest corners of the internet to find a hitman, according to an alert from Europol, on Wednesday, and eventually found the website that claims to offer such services on the Dark Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tor network is to use the depth of the web \u2013 a sublayer that is not indexed to the typical search engine \u2013 and the illegal activities and purchases in a sector of this area, known as the dark web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After contact, someone seemingly happy to murder his ex-friend was paid roughly \u20ac10,000 in Bitcoin (BTC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Europol and the Italian Post and Kommunikations Police seem to have been winding up the plan and conducting a &#8216;urgent and complex crypto-analysis.'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time as Europol sought to disguise and trace the transfer of BTC, Italian law enforcement reached the crypto-monetary exchange where it originally bought the virtual currency of the subject. The unnamed exchange provided additional information to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The timely investigation prevented the potential victim from being harmed,&#8221; says Europol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It uses a range of tools to monitor and track transactions of cryptocurrency suspected of linkage to criminal activities as well as various law enforcement groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Interpol uses and participated in the development of a crypto-currency crypto-sense analysis tool, GraphSense. The organization is currently working on a new tool, known as the &#8216;Darkweb Monitor,' that focuses on the collection of information on cryptocurrency for law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian man was arrested because a hitman was suspected of paying BTC worth of 10,000 euros for his previous partner&#8217;s murder. The suspect went into the darkest corners of the internet to find a hitman, according to an alert from Europol, on Wednesday, and eventually found the website that claims to offer such services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}