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Eleven years in prison for the man behind the drug website

The Svea Court of Appeal upholds the prison sentence of eleven years and ten months for a 41-year-old man who, over a period of three years, operated the drug website Flugsvamp 3.0.

» Updated: 05 October 2024, 20:27

» Published: 19 July 2024

Eleven years in prison for the man behind the drug website
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The Svea Court of Appeal has established a prison sentence of eleven years and ten months for a 41-year-old man who, over a period of three years, operated the drug website Flugsvamp 3.0.

Two other men are also sentenced to prison, including for aiding and abetting aggravated drug offenses, to six and a half years and four and a half years, respectively.

"It has been a matter of a very extensive drug trade that has taken place via encrypted networks and has generated large profits for the main defendant," the Court of Appeal writes in a press release.

The website emerged on the darknet in 2018, shortly after its predecessor Flugsvamp 2.0 was shut down, and functioned as a marketplace for buyers and sellers of drugs. The business idea was to import drugs into Sweden and then sell them within the country, according to the prosecutor.

The website sold, among other things, narcotic preparations such as benzodiazepines, cannabis, central stimulants, hallucinogens, opiates, and other drugs. According to the indictment, the website turned over the equivalent of 2.5 billion kronor until it was shut down in November 2021.

The website has existed in several versions, and in 2022, a 30-year-old man who administered Flugsvamp 2.0 was sentenced. He is currently on the run abroad.

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