Indian Sold Narcotics via Dark Web, Had 8 Cells across the US

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Banmeet Singh, an Indian national, has been fined $150 million for selling controlled substances on dark web marketplaces.

Singh pleaded guilty on Jan 26 to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit money laundering, as per the Justice Department press release. He faces a sentence of eight years in prison.

Singh worked by creating vendor marketing sites on dark web such as Silk Road, Alpha Bay, Hansa, to sell controlled substances that included fentanyl, LSD, ecstasy, Xanax, Ketamine, and Tramadol.

Customers ordered controlled substances from the vendor sites and paid with cryptocurrency. Singh got controlled substances shipped from Europe to the United States through US mail or other shipping services. Between 2012 to 2017, Singh controlled at least eight distribution cells within the United States. These cells were located in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, North Dakota, and Washington, among other locations.

These distribution cells would receive drug shipments from overseas and then re-package and re-ship the drugs to locations across all of US, Canada, England, Ireland, Jamaica, Scotland, and the US Virgin Islands.

Over the course of the conspiracy, the Singh drug organization moved hundreds of kilograms of controlled substances throughout the United States and established a multimillion-dollar drug enterprise that laundered millions of dollars of drug proceeds into cryptocurrency accounts, which ultimately became worth approximately $150 million.

Singh was arrested in London in 2019, and the United States secured his extradition in 2023.

 

 

 

 

Indian Sold Narcotics Via Dark Web, Had 8 Cells Across the US
Banmeet Singh, 40, faces a sentence of eight years in prison.

HI INDIA NEWS DESK

Banmeet Singh, 40, an Indian national, has been fined $150 million for selling controlled substances on dark web marketplaces.

Singh pleaded guilty on Jan 26 to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit money laundering, as per the Justice Department press release. He faces a sentence of eight years in prison.

Singh worked by creating vendor marketing sites on dark web such as Silk Road, Alpha Bay, Hansa, to sell controlled substances that included fentanyl, LSD, ecstasy, Xanax, Ketamine, and Tramadol.

Customers ordered controlled substances from the vendor sites and paid with cryptocurrency. Singh got controlled substances shipped from Europe to the United States through US mail or other shipping services. Between 2012 to 2017, Singh controlled at least eight distribution cells within the United States. These cells were located in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, North Dakota, and Washington, among other locations.

These distribution cells would receive drug shipments from overseas and then re-package and re-shipp the drugs to locations across all of US, Canada, England, Ireland, Jamaica, Scotland, and the US Virgin Islands.

Over the course of the conspiracy, the Singh drug organization moved hundreds of kilograms of controlled substances throughout the United States and established a multimillion-dollar drug enterprise that laundered millions of dollars of drug proceeds into cryptocurrency accounts, which ultimately became worth approximately $150 million.

Singh was arrested in London in 2019, and the United States secured his extradition in 2023.