Woman jailed in Denmark for Bitcoin murder plot

A woman from Italy who ordered her boyfriend’s murder via a website and paid a hitman in the digital currency bitcoin was sentenced to six years in a Danish jail on Friday.

The Italian woman, who has remained unnamed, hired the hitman on a site called Crime Bay. She wanted the hitman to murder her boyfriend, so she sent the hitman a photograph of the intended victim along with his address. She insisted that the hitman use a silencer and that he succeed in killing the victim on the first attempt.

The court discovered that the 58-year-old woman ordered the said murder, which was never carried out, in March. She transferred 4.1 bitcoins, which were then worth about $4,000, to the virtual wallet of the hitman.

Bitcoin can be electronically transferred between users even without an intermediary such as a bank, making it possibly attractive for buying illegal services or goods.

Apparently, hiring a hitman on the Dark Web (cue even more ominous music) with Bitcoin is an unusual circumstance in Denmark. The 58-year-old woman pled not guilty to the charges, but she was just convicted. She’ll spend the next six years in a Danish prison. After her sentence is completed, she’ll be deported from Denmark, where she’s lived for the last 30 years.