AMERICAN DRUG DEALER BUYS VAST QUANTITIES OF ZIMBABWE DOLLARS

A drug dealer who used dark web marketplaces to ply his trade apparently used part of the proceeds to buy vast quantities of Zimbabwean cash. The FBI said Richard Castro, of Florida, had bought the equivalent of "approximately 100 quadrillion [1,000 trillion] Zimbabwe bank notes" in June 2018. Use of the currency had ended years earlier, following hyperinflation.The purchase is thought to