Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the suspect they cuffed last night, who is charged with being the alleged mastermind. Australian national Jay Je Yoon Jung, 32, of Narwee, New South Wales, was …
"Do Irish cops use the same valuation scale as British cops where that is actually something like 1g of coccaine?"
To loosely quote from the 2011 Irish comedy film The Guard (really worth seeing):
"Street value. You always announce a seizure of drugs worth a street value of ten million dollars or 20 million dollars or half a billion dollars.
I do wonder what street it is you're buying your cocaine on, because it's not the same street as I'm buying my cocaine on."
Look, I'm very glad that you dismantled a violent criminal network, don't get me wrong, but I can put 200kg of anything in the back of my Skoda Fabia.
That is not an impressive amount to me. Can't you find anything better ? In the boatload range, for example ? I don't know, a ton or more ?
200kg sounds like a Saturday at Cosco. If these guys were such criminal masterminds, you should be able to find that under the sofa.
The ship load (2 tons) was last year - the MV Matthew. They seized another 100kg of cocaine, along with 700kg of cannabis, last month at Rosslare. There have been other reported seizures over the summer. But this is just Ireland. The big seizures seem to come in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Did you hear about supply and demand and how it affects prices?
This makes no difference to supply and demand and thus makes no difference to prices.
If anything this may increase violence as void created by arrests may cause fighting between parties wanting to take over.
You really are immune to the truth aren’t you, do you not notice that all your multitude of posts get significantly downvoted because they are so bad? Like saying these seizures make not difference. 200kg is 200,000 Grams, which can also be expressed as 200,000 “deals” that cannot be done, and some of those buyers will not be able to find another dealer.
A seizure not only denies the market of the product seized, it makes some potential dealers decide on another career path.
Bit like you should ElfGobbler, you are no good at this one!
> "using Ghost, in Australia and overseas, to import illicit drugs"
Wow, apps can do that these days? There goes international shipping as a business.
Oh, wait, now you're telling me they just communicated about importing illicit drugs on the app? So, why is the app author in trouble and yet all the other platforms are free to continue sharing materials related to the four horsemen?
Oh, you're telling me it was exclusively used by criminals? Because only criminals would want their communications encrypted?
Aaaah, now I get it, you're one of those countries that only has the really difficult societal problems left and so you're moving in the police state direction to maintain an appearance of "doing something" in order to justify next year's budget / votes.
I'm so for preventing murders and the bad, scary things that actually happen in meatspace, but the demonizing of the essentially harmless electronic 'admin' hasn't yet worn thin after half a century of chasing "dangerous hackers". The powers-that-be are just as scared and clueless about technology now as they were in Mitnick's and Crunch's days, despite having grown up in and around it.
If science progress one funeral at a time, society only progresses one military-industrial-politico-complex at a time.
