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A 30 -year -old German citizen coordinated from Barcelona the largest drug market in the Dark Web European Archetyp Market has been functioning as an online narcotic supermarket for more than five years.
Now has been arrested by the National Police.
Why is it important. This platform had achieved what few illegal markets achieve: scale, longevity and reputation. It has reached 612,000 registered users and 3,200 active vendors.
It had become a key piece of European drug trafficking.
The figures:
- The business volume has reached 250 million euros in transactions.
- The store has marketed 17,000 lots of narcotics, from heroin and fentanyl to cannabis and synthetic drugs.
Payments were made exclusively in Moneroa cryptocurrency specially valued by its anonymity guarantee. In 2018 we count on Xataka How easy we found to access this type of marketswhere in addition to drugs we could find weapons or guns.
In detail. The administrator, known as “Roger” and with multiple digital alias, directed a complex structure.
- The servers were located in the Netherlands.
- He operated from Catalonia.
- His profile fit with the new drug trafficker: technologically sophisticated, businessly efficient, mediately active.
Message that appears in the domains intervened in this operation. Image: Eurojust.
Between bambalins. Operation Deep Sentinel involved 300 agents from six European countries. The German authorities first identified the suspect, but needed international cooperation to dismantle the entire network. Technical complexity required specialists in Dark Web and cryptocurrency analysis.
Archetyp had filled the void left by other dismantled markets such as Dream Market and Silk Road. His longevity contrasted with the typical short life of these platforms, usually closed in months by the authorities.
In the video of the operation, published by the National Police, you can see the multiple currencies that the detainee was handled at his home:
Deepen. The operation included important seizures: high -end vehicles, luxury watches, 7.8 million euros in cryptocurrencies and several computer devices. The authorities confiscated complete digital infrastructure.
Security forces have left A notice and a video message in the intervened domainswarning that the anonymity of the Dark Web It is not impregnable.
In Xataka | One week on the Deep Web. This is what I found
Outstanding image | National Police
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