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Dark web drug site founder to appear in New York court

The Department of Justice in Washington, D.C, on April 16, 2019. [AFP]

A 23-year-old man from Taiwan is set to appear in a New York court Monday on charges of allowing the sale of more than $100 million worth of illegal drugs on a dark web website he allegedly founded.

Rui-Siang Lin was arrested Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and will be presented in Manhattan federal court on Monday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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