
a 14 year old South Korean The girl has been arrested on suspicion of using cryptosett to buy methamphetamine (crystal meth).
Per dong-an ilboThe girl is a third grade middle school student who lives in the Dongdaemun district of central Seoul. Police say she was found “collapsed” on a staircase in an apartment block. Authorities say he dissolved the substance – also known as Philopone in East Asian countries – in a bottle of water.
Authorities said the girl paid just $300 worth of crypto for 10 “doses” of methamphetamine. Police said the girl managed to find a telegram-based drug dealer’s ID “without any difficulty” while she was “searching the Internet out of curiosity.”
They think that the girl may have got this information through some anonymous social media site.
cryptonews.com Have seen widespread evidence of Korean language posts on platforms such as Twitter – apparently from drug dealers. Many such posts, including Telegram and KakaoTalk IDs, contained images of what appeared to be bags of drugs.
South Korean police to intensify crackdown on crypto-powered drug dealing
The girl was accused of violating the Narcotics Control Act. He claimed it was his “first encounter with drugs”. But the police say that they will conduct several medical tests to ascertain the veracity of his claims.
Authorities say the drug dealer used a “dead drop” delivery method, leaving narcotics in a “crack in the door” of a residential area in Seoul’s Gwangjin district.
Police said they were also “planning to investigate” to identify the dealer.
Earlier this week, the National Police Agency said it was Launched a new Cyber Crime Taskforce, The taskforce will be charged with busting darkweb-based crime networks and investigating crypto-related crimes.
the police have Had some success tracking down drug dealers and their customers in recent months. late last year he revealed that he had increase your spending on blockchain analytics tools and crypto-specific training.