Taiwanese online drug trafficker sentenced to 30 years in USBy Sam Garcia / Staff writer, with CNAA New York court yesterday sentenced a Taiwanese man to 30 years in prison for conspiring to distribute narcotics, money laundering and conspiring to sell adulterated and misbranded medication. Taiwanese national Lin Rui-siang (林睿庠) was arrested in May 2024 for operating an online narcotics marketplace, called “Incognito Market,” the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said in a news release yesterday. A screen grab shows products on the Incognito Market online platform. While Lin was in the US, he sold US$105 million worth of drugs to online customers, making him “one of the world’s most prolific drug traffickers,” Clayton said. Lin operated the Incognito Market under the online pseudonym “Pharaoh,” supervised its operations and “had ultimate decision-making authority over every aspect of the multimillion-dollar operation,” the court said in its statement.

Source: Taipei Times February 04, 2026 14:14 UTC