Tal Freiher grossed more than $ 8 million through the brokerage of illegal transactions on the portal in Darknet that he managed • The maximum penalty for the offenses for which he is charged: 20 years in prison
Tal Friher's social networking page
Tal Freiher, an Israeli citizen living in Brazil, today (Wednesday) admitted to brokering illegal transactions in the Darknet (Darknet) from which he earned $ 8.4 million, transactions that included arms trafficking, various types of drugs and other prohibited substances.
Friher, 37, admitted, along with his partner, an Israeli citizen named Michael Pan, that the dark web site they ran, "DeepDotWeb," served as an online marketplace for illicit transactions.
Freiher even admitted that he used several bitcoin wallets to launder the capital he rake from the deals.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice said that Friher knew about the nature of the deals and that they included the sale of hacking and cracking tools, fentanyl and heroin drugs, as well as automated weapons that are banned from sale in the United States.
"Tal Freiher served as an intermediary for illegal Darknet transactions. The site was uncovered and seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019. This lawsuit is proof of our readiness not only to bring justice to those who trade in banned substances in the dark web but also those who enable and mediate these transactions," American Justice Nickel McQueen.
Carlton People, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigator in charge of the case, said: "For six years Mr. Perry-Har's site served as a gateway to illegal transactions and the purchase of items such as dangerous drugs, weapons and malicious programs. He profited from dangerous and criminal acts of others."
The sentence in Freiher's trial is expected in August and he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in a federal prison in the United States.