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After days of speculation on the Internet, the U.S. Justice department confirmed that a Canadian citizen who was living in Thailand was detained. He is believed to have committed suicide while being held in custody. This happened after international authorities, including here, closed the AlphaBay criminal marketplace via the darknet market. The Dutch police led by European law enforcement
shut down Hansa, a Hansa trading platform that was believed to have been the third largest Dark Web criminal marketplace. It also traded large volumes of illicit drugs, malware and stolen documents. AlphaBay was the number one.
The Justice department stated that Alexandre Cazes (also known as Alpha02 or Admin on the Web) was detained by Thai authorities for his role in creating and managing AlphaBay. The RCMP also executed search warrants on a Trois Rivieres home, Que., that day and seized computer equipment.Cazes was charged with conspiracy to engage racketeering and conspiracy to distribute drugs. He also faces six counts of distribution.
In a court order requesting seizure goods and property in several countries, the U.S. claimed that Cazes was founder and leader AlphaBay. He also "collected tens to millions of dollars in commissions from sales." Only digital currency was used for sales.In 2016, AlphaBay was undercoverly purchased by police. The U.S. claimed that Cazes was not masking after they discovered in December that Cazes had a Hotmail account in the header of a "welcome" email that was sent to new users. In the AlphaBay password recovery process header, the same email address was found. Police found an unrelated post from 2008 that contained the same email address as Cazes and Alexandre Cazes.According to the court document, Cazes used EBX Technologies as a front company to justify his bank transactions. His PayPal account records were also confiscated by police.The RCMP claims that it began investigating Cazes, and AlphaBay in January following receiving leads from the FBI (and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency) (DEA).
According to the force, Cazes was actually in Quebec that month and was stopped by Trois Riveres officers. H presented a Thai drivers license and stated that he was visiting his mother.During its investigation, the RCMP obtained production orders from several courts for Internet providers, bank accounts, search warrants to email, and search warrants for email, for a residence, a company, and that company's servers. Const. Erique Gasse was a media relations officer with the force. "We are looking into the possibility of Canadian associates."
The National Post reported earlier this week that Cazes emigrated to Thailand four years back and has lived a rich life.According to U.S. authorities a laptop found in Cazes' bedroom was logged into AlphaBay administrator's website. After the site went offline, it was trying to restart it. The administrator police pulled the plug, unbeknownst to them.Police had access to the laptop's passwords and a file titled "Total net worth" that Cazes kept. The total reached over US$23 million.Two Hansa administrators were arrested in Germany by the Dutch police, who also seize servers in Germany, Lithuania, and Germany.