International police arrest 288 suspects in Dark Web bust of illegal marketplace

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The operation also netted almost a tonne of drugs and 117 firearms. Read more at straitstimes.com.

THE HAGUE - A global crackdown has halted a major Dark Web marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than €50 million in cash and virtual currency, Europol said on Tuesday.

“In an operation coordinated by Europol and involving nine countries, law enforcement have seized the illegal Dark Web marketplace Monopoly Market and arrested 288 suspects involved in buying or selling drugs on the Dark Web,” the Hague-based Europol said in a statement.The sting followed in the wake of a successful 2021 operation by German police in which they seized the Monopoly Market’s criminal infrastructure.

 

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