Law enforcement officers from six countries took down the Arctype Market, a notorious dark drug marketplace, which has been working since May 2020.
Arctype market sellers provided access to high versions of high amounts of drugs including more than 3,200 registered vendors and more than 17,000 listings such as cocainels such as cocaine, amphetamine, heroin, cannabis, MDMA and synthetic opioids.
In its five -year activity, Marketplace collected more than 612,000 users in mono cryptocurrency transactions with total transactions of more than € 250 million (about $ 289 million).
As part of this joint action ‘Operating deepest sentiments‘(Under the leadership of German Police and supported by Europeol And Urosest), Investigators in the Netherlands reduced the infrastructure of the marketplace, while a 30 -year -old German National was suspected of being a administrator of the Archtip Market, who was caught in Barcelona, Spain.
Six of the highest vendors of an arch -market model and marketplace in Germany and Sweden were also arrested.
overall, Law enforcement officers seized Property of € 7.8 million from all suspects during 47 smartphones, 45 computers, narcotics, and operation Deep Sentinel.
“Between 11 and 13 June, there was a series of coordinated works in Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, which targets the administrator, intermediary, key vendors and technical infrastructure of the platform. Around 300 officers were deployed to perform enforcement works.”
“With this takedown, the law enforcement has taken out one of the longest drug markets of the Dark web, cutting a major supply line for some of the world’s most dangerous substances,” said Jean-Filip Lakefe, Deputy Executive Director of Europeol on Monday.
In May, the law enforcement arrested another 270 suspects, known as ‘Operation Repters’ after an international joint action, which targeted dark web vendors and their customers from ten countries.
During the same operation, police officers in Europe, South America, Asia and the United States also seized more than 2 tons of drugs (including Aimphemine, Cocaine, Catamine, Opioids and Canbis), € 184 million ($ 207 million) in cash and cryptocurrency, and higher than more than 180 firearms.
Investigators identified suspects (many behind thousands of sales on illegal online marketplace), using intelligence information collected after the techdown of several dark web markets including Nemesis, Bohemia, Tor 2 Door and Kingdom Market.
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