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18/12/2024
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18 December 
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INTERPOL CLOSED THE LARGEST ONLINE BLACK MARKET
European branch of Interpol managed to close one of the largest online black markets. The DarkMarket website, often used to sell illegal goods, including drugs, counterfeit bills and malicious computer programs, has been shut down by the German authorities. Now, law enforcement agencies will have to identify traffickers who have committed criminal transactions on the Internet.
DarkMarket's audience was nearly half a million users from all over the world.
According to the foreign media reports, a thorough investigation has been carried out in the process of a joint work of American intelligence services, including the FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), IRS (US Internal Revenue Service) and the police of a number of countries (Australia, Great Britain, Denmark, Switzerland).
The representatives of the services managed to detain the DarkMarket operator and seize 20 servers that were used in Ukraine and Moldova. 34-year-old Australian citizen was caught near the German-Danish border. The suspect, having appeared before the judge, refused to provide any information and was placed in a pre-trial detention center. However, investigators hope that the data stored on the servers will allow further investigation and prosecution of the DarkMarket's moderators, sellers and buyers.
According to the European police estimates, the website has sold goods worth the equivalent of ˆ 140 million.
At the same time, the European currency was mixed with digital currencies (bitcoins and monero). The two most common cryptocurrencies changed hands through the website. In total, more than 4,650 bitcoins and 12,800 monero were used to conduct more than 320 thousand transactions.
It is noted that more than 2,400 sellers from different countries worked on the website. At the same time, during a pandemic, when the traditional street trade of narcotic and psychotropic substances was hampered, the platforms like DarkMarket allowed illegal traders to continue their activities, having transferred it to the digital space.
According to experts, dark times are coming for the black online market.
The Bittrex exchange has already announced its decision to exclude some cryptocurrencies (Monero, Zcash, Dash) from the listing due to their complete anonymity. The investigation into the black market itself was a part of a larger operation involving Cyberbunker web hosting.
Back in September 2019, Interpol officers discovered 179 suppliers of illegal products (including opioids and methamphetamine). 121 suspects were arrested in the United States, forty-two in Germany, eight in Holland, four in the UK, three in Austria and one in Sweden. This operation was called DisrupTor. And earlier in May 2019, the Wall Street Market, which served as the second largest dark Internet exchange with more than a million users and 5,400 suppliers, was closed.
