After dismantling a cross-province drug trafficking gang operating in China, the police in Shanghai have unveiled the existence of a wide-reaching network of software contacts and cryptocurrency payments deployed to cover tracks in an elaborate scheme.
Specifically, drug users and traffickers used “overseas social software” to establish contact, upon which the former would make payments using crypto assets, and the latter would hide packages of narcotics in specific locations, according to a report published by Shanghai Observer on June 26.
As it happens, the police revealed the case on the eve of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking,” stating that it involved “the sale of new drugs, as well as cultivation, processing, and sale of marijuana by a criminal gang,” through the “fully contactless internet drug trafficking chain, which has become the main form of drug trade today.”
Unravelling the knot
In February, the police in the Putuo District of
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