Kingdom Market administrator given 16-year sentence

Slovakian national Alan Bill, a key operator of the darknet marketplace Kingdom Market, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to over 16 years after his December 2023 arrest; German authorities seized servers showing thousands of drug and other illegal sales (including stolen financial data and counterfeit IDs), with the platform accepting bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero and Zcash and enabling transnational criminal activity in a coordinated law-enforcement takedown.