German investigators have taken down one of the largest and oldest criminal platforms on the so-called darknet, prosecutors in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt said on Monday.
The domain, known as Archetyp Market, was reportedly a major trading platform for drugs, with about 612,000 customer accounts, 3,200 sellers and a turnover of at least €250 million ($290 million).
The investigation saw over 300 officials carry out 25 house searches in several European Union countries across several days. A suspected site administrator, a 30-year-old German man, was arrested at his home in Barcelona, Spain, last week, while servers in the Netherlands were turned off by police.
Further raids targeting website moderators and sellers reportedly took place in Romania, Sweden and Germany – in Lower Saxony, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, to be precise.
The entire operation recovered dozens of mobile phones, computers, hard drives and cash worth around €7.8 million ($9 million).
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