Tue 26 October 2021:
Europol revealed on Tuesday that over 150 people had been arrested in one of the largest global crackdowns on illegal dark web trading.
The DarkHunTOR operation began after German authorities dismantled DarkMarket, one of the most popular internet black markets, in January.
Since then, Europol has carried out a series of “separate but complementary actions” in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
As a result, 65 people in the United States, 47 in Germany, 24 in the United Kingdom, and four each in Italy and the Netherlands were detained.
According to Europol, several of those detained were “high-value targets.”
The dark web is a collection of websites that can only be accessed with a special web browser that encrypts user activity to keep it anonymous and secret. This is why criminal organizations prefer it.
In addition to cash and electronic currencies, police seized €26.7 million in drugs, including 25,000 ecstasy tablets, and 45 guns.
According to Europol, whose operation was coordinated with Eurojust, the European body for judicial cooperation, police in Italy also shut down unlawful marketplaces called “DeepSea” and “Berlusconi,” which between them contained “more than 100,000 adverts for illegal products.”
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