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Thailand to extradite Canadian arrested as 'adviser' to Silk Road website

Published 2015-12-09, 12:57 a/m
© Reuters. Thailand to extradite Canadian arrested as 'adviser' to Silk Road website

BANGKOK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A Canadian man arrested in
Thailand over his alleged role as a senior adviser to the
creator of the underground Silk Road website will be extradited
to the United States next month, police said on Wednesday.
Thai police said they arrested Canadian Roger Thomas Clark
last week, following a request for help from U.S. authorities.
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Clark advised
the website's creator, Ross Ulbricht, on ways to run the site, a
platform for selling illegal drugs, and how to evade police.
Clark faces charges of narcotics conspiracy and money
laundering, with a jail term of 30 years if found guilty.
Clark is being held at an immigration detention center in
Bangkok and Thailand will send him to the United States,
police official Songpol Wattanachai told reporters.
"We caught and detained him and he is being held by
immigration police in Bangkok," said Songpol, a deputy spokesman
for national police.
"We are in the process of sending him back to the United
States as America asked for him," he added. "We can send him
back in about a month."
He did not say why the procedure would take a month.
Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and
other goods were sold, was shut down in October 2013, when
authorities seized the website and arrested Ulbricht.
Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in May after a U.S.
federal jury found him guilty of orchestrating the scheme that
enabled more than $200 million in anonymous online drug sales
using the digital currency bitcoin.
U.S. prosecutors said Silk Road became a blueprint for other
so-called "dark market" websites that allow illegal drug sales.

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