Polis har slagit till mot och stängt med webbplatserna AlphaBay och Hansa Market på Dark Net. Webbplatserna har varit stora salusajter där droger, illegala vapen och allehanda olagligheter har bjudtits ut.
Tillslaget är ett samarbete mellan FBI, Europol och enskilda polismyndigheter i flera länder.
Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa will lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe
Months of preparation and coordination have resulted today, 20 July 2017, in the takedown of two of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa.
Two major law enforcement operations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police, with the support of Europol, have shut down the infrastructure of an underground criminal economy responsible for the trading of over 350 000 illicit commodities including drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware. The coordinated law enforcement action in Europe and the US ranks as one of the most sophisticated takedown operations ever seen in the fight against criminal activities online.
Efterföljare
De båda webbplatserna kan sägas vara efterföljare till Silk Road och i det ena fallet, AlphaBay, så underlättades utredningen av att den som misstänks ha grundat sajten publicerade sin hotmail-adress redan på startsidan.
Macken 14 juli 2017: Silk Roads efterföljare har tagits ned av polis
Den misstänkte greps av thailändsk polis och hittades hängd i sin cell några dagar efter gripandet.
“This is an outstanding success by authorities in Europe and the US,” Rob Wainwright, the Executive Director of Europol, said today, while appearing alongside the US Attorney General, Acting FBI Director and Deputy Director of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), at a special press conference in Washington DC. “The capability of drug traffickers and other serious criminals around the world has taken a serious hit today after a highly sophisticated joint action in multiple countries. By acting together on a global basis the law enforcement community has sent a clear message that we have the means to identify criminality and strike back, even in areas of the Dark Web. There are more of these operations to come,” he added.
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