Arrested by the FBI in 2013 and sentenced last February to drug smuggling, software piracy and money laundering , the thirty year old Texan Ross Ulbricht was sentenced yesterday all ‘ life sentence . To issue the sentence of life imprisonment for the founder of the site Silk Road has been a federal court in New York, which has established for Ulbricht also the obligation to pay compensation the government with the payment of $ 184 million.
Silk Road has been for some time one of the sites of e-commerce illegal world’s most famous : allowed to buy drugs, narcotics, weapons and even forged documents, paid mainly through the use of bitcoin . Founded by Ulbricht in 2011, Silk Road had been closed by the police in 2013 and, in just two years, he had been able to generate $ 187 million. According to Some surveys, however, the total turnover that was created through this site has moved a total of 1.2 billion dollars.
Ross Ulbricht had asked the judge that he be spared the old and he be given the minimum sentence which was in danger, that is 20 years in prison. The Judge Katherine B.Forrest , however, condemned the founder of S ilk Road life imprisonment. During the hearing, which lasted three hours and described by those present as “incredibly dramatic,” Ulbricht has repeatedly tried to convince the judge that he is no longer the person he was when he was hiding behind the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts “ and ran the site Silk Road , that has changed.
Judge Forrest, however, while admitting that the decision was very hard to take, explained that Silk Road was an “attack on the public health community” and that the role played by Ulbricht was “terribly destructive to our social fabric.” Although Ulbricht has said at the hearing that the creation of Silk Road was not tied in any way to a desire or a need to satisfy his personal greed, Forrest claimed that the young man did not behave differently from any drug dealer. “ Do not have the profile of a criminal, but you’re a criminal,” , he continued the judge, who then decided to Ulbricht the “ End punishment: never .”
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