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When Jen Sanchez, a 26-year veteran of the DEA stationed in Bangkok, got a sense of the extent of the commerce in hard drugs that Alphabay facilitated daily, she became incensed. She also sensed opportunity. The biggest dark-web kingpin in history was in her backyard. 4/12 https://t.co/pOlUv1l3NI — PolitiTweet.org

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A Canadian friend visiting Cazes’ Bangkok home in 2015 recalls that he had an alarming liquidity issue: there were piles of money lying around the house, even hidden in recesses in the walls. “There was money everywhere,” he remembers. “You open a drawer, you find money.” 3/12 — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet Sanchez and others tracking him found, in the physical world, Cazes’ hands were cleaner than any kingpin the DEA had ever encountered. His criminality seemed to be channeled entirely through the opaque aperture of the dark web, behind the veil of Bitcoin's blockchain. 5/12 — PolitiTweet.org

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