Chicago –(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015. A drug trafficker who used the illicit website “Silk Road” for worldwide drug sales was sentenced yesterday to 10 years’ imprisonment for selling millions of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs for bitcoins. The defendant, Cornelis Jan Slomp, 23, of Woerden, the Netherlands, pled guilty in April 2014 to conspiracy to import and distribute various controlled substances worldwide. Slomp was also ordered to forfeit $3,030,000 in illegal drug proceeds from his criminal enterprise. Slomp has been in federal custody since his arrest in August 2013.
