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Inside busted illegal $220million darknet data centre

Footage has emerged of the inside of a five-storey abandoned underground NATO bunker built with 31inch thick concrete walls in Germany allegedly converted by criminal gangs into a high tech data centre to host darknet market websites.  An Australian man was arrested on Monday accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace – called the biggest …

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Self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband granted bail

The self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ and her husband have been granted bail set at $3million and $5million respectively after being arrested for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack.  Ilya ” Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, were arrested on Tuesday …

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NY bitcoin money laundering couple 'from the pages of a spy novel'

A New York couple dubbed ‘ Bonnie and Crypto Clyde’ arrested on charges of laundering $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin led an existence ‘pulled from the pages of a spy novel,’ prosecutors have said. Ilya ” Lichtenstein, 34, dark Markets and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, are being held in custody following their Tuesday arrest, …

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Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and darknet market operations between April 2019 and June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday. These addresses received …

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Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year …

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Australian man accused of running world's biggest 'dark web' market

An Australian man is accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace which has been called the biggest in the world and ‘ for criminals’.  A joint investigation by Australian Federal Police, Scotland Yard, dark web sites the , Europol, and German authorities, among others, led to the arrest of the man, darknet market lists …

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Four paedophiles jailed in Germany for raping boys in garden shed

Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led the sexual abuse from a shed belonging to his mother – who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victims Four paedophiles have been jailed in for raping boys after luring them to a shed where they drugged them and abused them for dark …

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First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa has merchants and consumers looking for a new home. Authorities , the largest online marketplace for illegal goods, on July 4, and took down Hansa, the third largest, darknet market list on Thursday. The sites, where people could buy drugs, guns …

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Germany busts international child porn site used by 400,000

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors announced Monday they have busted one of the world’s biggest international darknet market platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members. Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement together with the Federal Criminal Police Office that in mid-April three German suspects, said to be the administrators of the …

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The largest dark web market for illegal goods is no more

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> Two of the three largest dark web markets are closed for business. The Department of Justice and Europol announced Thursday that they have that served hundreds of thousands of customers trying to get their hands on illegal goods online. While you or I can easily buy groceries, electronics and clothes online, …

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