Police raid Queensland properties over shutdown of dark web crime site

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After the arrest of an Australian man by German police over the DarkMarket site shutdown, officers from the Australian Federal Police raid properties in South-East Queensland and seize a laptop, mobile phones and thumb drives.

Australian Federal Police investigators have raided several properties in Brisbane and the Gold Coast in relation to the shutdown of the world's largest illegal dark web marketplace, DarkMarket.DarkMarket had nearly 500,000 users and nearly 2,400 vendorsa 34-year-old Australian man was arrested by German police last weekHe is accused of being the administrator of DarkMarket, which was selling drugs, counterfeit cash, stolen credit card data, anonymous SIM cards and malware.

Before being taken down, the marketplace had nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 vendors. It had processed more than 320,000 transactions, while more than 140 million euros in Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency was exchanged. Following the Australian man's arrest, German authorities alerted the AFP-led cybercrime unit Operation Futurist, which led to the latest raids.

 

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Fuck. Darknet markets are the best place to buy weed 😢. Not to worry, a new one will take its place.

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