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Quote from: IronMarvel2 on January 21, 2017, 02:17:06 AM

I can confirm that Lauda and other trusted members did an investigation regarding Zeroxal.
Zeroxal was not able or willing to explain double evasion of forum ban, advertising of counterfeit goods, selling botnet/cloud mining packages.
I can also confirm, that Lauda told me about the extortion and that it was only in purpose of gaining furthor evidence.

I hereby state as well, the above is all true, as I have seen both the pgp and the evidence. Thank you.

I hereby confirm the same.

Thanks

Even if this kind of extortion was done and sanctioned by law enforcement the evidence of payment would mean nothing and those doing the extortion would be guilty of extortion. Also any other evidence collected by these agents would probably be inadmissible.

Just because you are doing an investigation does not allow you to extort a suspected criminal. Telling others about an extortion attempt in advance doesn't remove criminal liability, it only potentially adds a potential conspiracy charge.

Only if they gained the evidence through the extortion attempt (if it's not sanctioned). Evidence gained through 'regular' investigation wouldn't be voided. In the case of Zeroxal it's safe to say that there is plenty of evidence......

In the DPR court case, the government very specifically did not use any evidence or information gathered by the field office that the corrupt agents were working out of. The corrupt agents, among other things extorted DPR.

The OP may be guilty of some crimes, I have not looked into this. However this does not excuse the extortion attempt by Lauda.

If an extortion attempt was sanctioned by a federal law enforcement agency then there is a decent chance that someone would be getting impeached, either the director of said agency or worse. I doubt there are any sanctioned extortion attempts by law enforcement.