Founder Silk Road Ross Ulbricht did not get into the list of pardoned by Trump

US President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people, including the former member of the Board of Directors of Ripple Ken Kenzon, the White House website said. The founder of the Darknet-market Silk Road Ross Ulbricht did not get on the list.

Kurson was https://gagarin.news/news/trading-volume-on-the-indian-crypto-market-fell-by-63-overnight/ arrested in October 2020 on charges of cybercrease of the ex -wife. Previously, she asked the authorities to terminate the case and opposed the arrest.

In December, Trump instructed the lawyers of the Presidential Administration to study the documents in the case of Ross Ulbricht. However, he did not fall into the final list of pardon, like the ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden and the head of WikiLeaks Julian Assange.

Donald Trump will save post until noon as local time (20:00 Moscow time) January 20. Then the inauguration of the chosen president Joe Biden will begin.

Recall that in 2015, the court found Ulbrichta guilty of drug traffic through Silk Road, a conspiracy to transport prohibited substances, hacking computer networks and laundering money, as well as in the leadership of a criminal organization.

In the same year, the founder of the Darknet market sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 2019, the venture investor Tim Draper advocated the liberation of Ulbricht. In March 2020, a petition with a similar requirement collected 275,000 signatures.

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