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Police seize over $600K in cash, Bitcoin, and Monero in worldwide dark web drug bust

Friday, May 3, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Police seize over $600K in cash, Bitcoin, and Monero in worldwide dark web drug bust

Police have busted two prolific dark web drug markets in a global sting, seizing six-figure amounts of Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency, as well as loads of narcotics. “[The Wall Street market] was the world’s second largest dark web market, enabling the trade in drugs (including cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines), stolen data, fake documents and malicious software,” said Europol. “The illegal platform was exclusively accessible via the Tor network in the so-called Darknet and aimed at international trade in criminal goods.” Over €550,000 ($613,600) in cash, six-figure sums of cryptocurrency, vehicles, as well as computers and related data storage devices…

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