"Silk Road has emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet today," FBI agent Christopher Tarbell said in a criminal complaint lodged by the agency in 2013.

While President Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were the most public of his first day, he also granted clemency the next day to a man who operated an international dark web marketplace, partly from ...

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark website Silk Road. Trump, 78, announced his grant ...

But the site was notorious for selling vast swathes of drugs.) Ulbricht created the Silk Road site, accessible only using specific software that could connect to the dark web, in January 2011.

Politics Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace January 21, 20259:17 PM ET Jenna McLaughlin ...

The FBI said Silk Road had generated more than $200m (£161m) in sales of drugs, guns, fake IDs and computer hacking services, while it also linked six drug-related deaths to the site.

Silk Road 2.0 launched about a month later. By September of the following year, Silk Road 2.0 was generating $8 million in monthly sales revenue and had 150,000 active users, according to a press ...