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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By Lawrence Delevingne BOSTON, April 28 (Reuters) – U.S.officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, the alleged principal operator dark market 2023 of cryptocurrency money laundering website Bitcoin Fog, according to a federal court filing. Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and dark web market list Sweden, was detained in Los Angeles on money-laundering related charges. Bitcoin …
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THE HAGUE, Jan 12 (Reuters) – An online marketplace called “DarkMarket” that sold illegal drugs has been taken down in an operation led by German law enforcement agencies, European police agency Europol said on Tuesday. The darknet market had almost 500,000 users with 2,400 sellers, Europol said in a statement.Transactions conducted on it in cryptocurrency …
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By Tom Wilson LONDON, darknet market lists 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 …
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German police have taken down one of the world’s largest child porn sites with over 400,000 members and arrested four people accused of running it. The site, known as BOYSTOWN and accessible only via the so-called Darkweb, had existed since July 2019 and was used for darknet market marketplace the worldwide exchange of child porn. …
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THE HAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) – The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for dark web market links prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, partly driven by a huge increase in the production of synthetic drugs, the agency said. In a report published on Monday …
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ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) – The former chief of logistics for darknet sites a regional Swiss police force appeared in court on Thursday accused of falsely buying guns and darkmarket url bullets on behalf of his employer and selling them via the darknet market. Prosecutors allege that the man, who has not been identified, dark …
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By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – An international operation targeting trafficking in opioids on a clandestine part of the internet called the darknet market has led to about 150 arrests in the United States and Europe and the seizure of drugs, cash and guns, U.S.and European authorities said on Tuesday. The crackdown, called …
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By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The kingpin or kingpins of the world’s biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters. The “Joker’s Stash” marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data …
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