The Dark Market store, which is said to be the largest web market in the dark internet, has been stopped by an international coordinated operation from Europol, and German law authorities have arrested an Australian man suspected of being the owner of the illegal website and confiscated 20 hosting servers on it, which put an end to the illegal activity It has been practicing for years, and reports confirm that before it closed, the DarkMarket store hosted nearly 500,000 users and facilitated the execution of more than 320,000 transactions, and the Dark Market contains everything from drugs and fake money to credit card details and stolen malware, according to the discretion. "Europol", the owner of the site is making the equivalent of 140 million euros per day as a result of the shopping operations that take place in the store, a combination of Bitcoin and Monero, and European authorities are planning to use DarkMarket's servers to reveal the identity of buyers and sellers who used the site in criminal transactions
German prosecutors in Koblenz and Oldenburg said on Tuesday that they had shut down what was known to be the most likely illegal market in the Dark Web, and arrested the man believed to run it near the German border with Denmark, the detained man believed to be the owner of the DarkMarket is a citizen A 34-year-old Australian man, Oldenburg police said that the raid took place at the beginning of last week. The main suspect was brought before an investigating judge, but he refused to speak and was placed in pretrial detention. Prosecutors said: "The investigators managed to close the market permanently as a first stage. Then the server closed on Monday. "The closing of the store was not the first of its kind for the German authorities, as illegal operators residing on German soil were previously detected in 2019, as Koblenz prosecutors announced the detection of servers hosted from a former NATO cache in the town. A quiet German, it is believed that three Dutch, three Germans, and a Bulgarian are behind these illegal activities in the dark Internet, and they are now under trial since last October in the German city of Trier, and the authorities say that the investigation that unveiled the DarkMarket was the result of international efforts that lasted for many months US agencies such as the FBI, Drug Enforcement Department of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the IRS Tax Authority contributed to the investigation, along with police from Australia, Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Moldova
The Oldenburg authorities added: "No less than 320,000 transactions were executed across the market, with more than 4,650 Bitcoins and 12,800 Monero coins being traded, which are two of the most popular cryptocurrencies." This "dark web" includes websites that can only be accessed using Certain programs or permissions guaranteeing anonymity for users. Also in September, the security police arrested 179 vendors involved in selling opiates, methamphetamine, and other illegal goods on the Internet, and as a result, about 121 suspects were arrested in the states. United, then 42 in Germany, eight in the Netherlands, four in Britain, three in Austria, and one in Sweden, and this process called DisrupTor came after the closure of a legal agency in May 2019 for the Wall Street market, which is the second-largest dark web exchange, which included more From 1.1 million users and 5,400 sellers
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