OP 15 April, 2023 - 05:09 PM
A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace in 2012 has been sentenced to a year in prison.
In a Friday press release, the US Justice Department said James Zhong has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for charges related to executing a scheme to steal more than 51,680 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site.
The DOJ noted that Zhong has been charged with one count of wire fraud for unlawfully obtaining approximately 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace.
Source :News Crypto 15/04/2023