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Paul Le Roux

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Paul Le Roux
Biography: 

Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

In 1999, he created E4M, a free and open-source disk encryption software program for Microsoft Windows, and is sometimes credited for open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M's code, though he denies involvement with TrueCrypt.

Le Roux was arrested on 26 September 2012 for conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States, and agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lesser sentence and immunity to any crimes he might admit to later. He subsequently admitted to arranging or participating in seven murders, carried out as part of an extensive illegal business empire.

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Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020.

Around age 15 or 16, Le Roux was arrested for selling pornography after police searched the family home.

In a book written by Evan Ratliff about Le Roux he admitted that a "former employee of Le Roux's, now in prison" suggested Le Roux had been the inventor of bitcoin. The arrest of Le Roux, and the last posts by Satoshi Nakamoto to the original Bitcoin repository, occurred around the same time.

Charged with murder, money laundering, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, organized crime, and fraud.

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References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

https://www.grunge.com/485336/where-is-convicted-drug-smuggler-paul-le-r...

https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/paul-le-roux-sentenced-to-25-years-for-spr...