A Dutch man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling massive quantities of drugs for bitcoins via the now-shuttered Silk Road website.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago announced Friday that 23-year-old Cornelius Jan Slomp was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty last year. He also was ordered to forfeit more than $3 million in illegal drug proceeds.
Slomp is accused of conducting more than 10,000 illegal online drug trades under the username "SuperTrips." Prosecutors say he shipped 566,000 ecstasy pills, kilos-worth of cocaine and other drugs.
Judge Matthew Kennelly previously called Slomp "the world's largest drug dealer" on the Silk Road site.
Slomp has been in custody since Chicago federal agents arrested him in August 2013. The college graduate and former software engineer is from Woerden, the Netherlands.
