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A US court has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 30 years in prison for his role in running one of the world's largest websites to buy illegal drugs. Lin Rui-siang was found guilty of money laundering and conspiring to sell narcotics and misbranded medications. The judge referred to the 24-year-old National Taiwan University graduate as a “drug kingpin.”

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00:00A Taiwanese man has been handed a 30-year sentence in the United States for running one of the world's largest online drug sites.
00:07Ding Ruishang ran incognito market from 2020 to 2024 on the dark web, selling more than 100 million U.S. dollars in illegal drugs around the world.
00:16He was found guilty of money laundering and conspiring to sell narcotics and misbranded medication.
00:21Last year, prosecutors in Taiwan seized over 3.5 million U.S. dollars in assets from Lin and issued a warrant for his arrest.
00:30The U.S. judge referred to the 24-year-old as a drug kingpin, saying his was the most serious drug crime she had seen.
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