Handcuffs on the door of the dock in the courtroom. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 14The Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested Dmitry Pavlov, alleged founder of the Hydra darknet market. «, — said in the case card. It does not specify whether it was an arrest in absentia or a real one. 5 article 228.1 (Illicit drug trafficking), the sanction of which provides for up to 20 years in prison. According to media reports, Pavlov is one of the founders of the darknet site Hydra Market. Official charges were brought against him in the United States. As the British Independent wrote earlier, Hydra is considered the world's largest illegal market, which allegedly served mainly Russian-speaking countries, in particular, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan. Hours after the server shutdown, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Hydra Market, which, according to Hill, should «undermine the operation of malicious services» of cybercrime, drug sales and other illegal activities. The American Wall Street Journal wrote that the «repressions» against the darknet market are not related to Western sanctions due to the Russian special operation in Ukraine, since the investigation began in August and lasted eight months. According to the newspaper, the closure of Hydra was «one of the biggest attacks» against a hidden network of websites where users pay for illegal goods and services with cryptocurrencies. jpg» />The State Duma proposed to create cybergroups in the darknet
