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300 nabbed in global crackdown on dark web drug marketplace

  By MIKE CORDER and LINDSAY WHITEHURSTMay 2, 2023 GMT
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  FILE- This Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, file photo shows the sun bouncing
  off the Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. LEuropean Union
  law enforcement agency Europol says police around the world have seized
  an online marketplace and arrested nearly 300 people allegedly involved
  in buying and selling drugs on the dark web. The operation, coordinated
  by Europol and targeting the “Monopoly Market,” is the latest major
  takedown of sales platforms for drugs and other illicit goods on the
  dark web. Europol said Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong,
  File)
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  FILE- This Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, file photo shows the sun bouncing
  off the Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. LEuropean Union
  law enforcement agency Europol says police around the world have seized
  an online marketplace and arrested nearly 300 people allegedly involved
  in buying and selling drugs on the dark web. The operation, coordinated
  by Europol and targeting the “Monopoly Market,” is the latest major
  takedown of sales platforms for drugs and other illicit goods on the
  dark web. Europol said Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong,
  File)

  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. and Europe
  arrested nearly 300 people, confiscated over $53 million, and seized a
  dark web marketplace as part of an international crack down on drug
  trafficking that officials say was the largest operation of its kind.

  The worldwide operation targeting the “Monopoly Market” is the latest
  major takedown of sales platforms for drugs and other illicit goods on
  the so-called dark web, a part of the internet hosted within an
  encrypted network and accessible only through specialized
  anonymity-providing tools.

  The largest number of arrests were made in the U.S., which is in the
  grips of an overdose crisis. Synthetic opioids, mostly fentanyl, kill
  more Americans every year than died in the Vietnam, Iraq and
  Afghanistan wars combined.

  “Our message to criminals on the dark web is this: You can try to hide
  in the furthest reaches of the internet, but the Justice Department
  will find you and hold you accountable for your crimes,” said U.S.
  Attorney General Merrick Garland. The number of arrests and money
  seized was the highest for any international Justice Department-led
  drug trafficking operation, he said.

  One defendant in California led an organization that bought fentanyl in
  bulk, pressed it into pills with methamphetamine and sold millions of
  pills to thousands of people on the dark web, he said.
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  Investigators also got leads from local police investigating overdose
  deaths, including a 19-year-old man in Colorado who loved learning
  languages and building his own computers, said FBI Deputy Director Paul
  Abbate.

  “But some of the packages his family thought were full of computer
  parts actually contain drugs he had purchased off the dark net,” he
  said. “Because of those drugs, that promising young man sadly died of
  an overdose last year.”

  For the first time, FBI agents from all the bureau’s field offices also
  visited buyers to tell them about the overdose danger of pills sold
  online, which are often disguised to look like prescription drugs.

  The largest number of arrests — 153 — were made in the United States,
  followed by the United Kingdom with 55 and Germany with 52, according
  to the European Union law enforcement agency Europol, which coordinated
  the worldwide operation.

  “Our coalition of law enforcement authorities across three continents
  proves that we all do better when we work together,” Europol’s
  executive director, Catherine De Bolle, said in a statement. “This
  operation sends a strong message to criminals on the dark web:
  International law enforcement has the means and the ability to identify
  and hold you accountable for your illegal activities, even on the dark
  web.”

  It seized 50.8 million euros ($53.4 million) in cash and virtual
  currencies, 850 kilograms of drugs, and 117 firearms were seized in a
  series of raids in several countries.

  In the Netherlands, where authorities arrested 10 suspects, police said
  the operation was made up of “separate but complementary actions that
  took place in nine countries over the past 18 months.”

  The Dutch national police’s Cyber ​​Enabled Crime Team was involved in
  the operation, codenamed SpecTor.

  “The intelligence that Europol shared with us, such as transaction data
  and virtual currency addresses, helped us to start new investigations
  and to enrich existing investigations. In this way we have identified
  and apprehended a number of important Dutch sellers,” said the Dutch
  team’s leader, Nan van de Coevering. “The success of this operation
  again shows that international cooperation is essential in combating
  crime on the dark web.”

  The seized drugs include 64 kilograms (141 pounds) of fentanyl or
  fentanyl-laced narcotics; over 258 kilograms (569 pounds) of
  amphetamines; 43 kilograms (95 pounds) of cocaine; 43 kilogram (95
  pounds) of MDMA; and over 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of LSD and ecstasy
  pills, authorities said.

  “A number of investigations to identify additional individuals behind
  dark web accounts are still ongoing,” Europol said. “As law enforcement
  authorities gained access to the vendors’ extensive buyer lists,
  thousands of customers across the globe are now at risk of prosecution
  as well.”

  The agency, based in The Hague, built intelligence based on evidence
  from Germany, which it said seized the marketplace’s “criminal
  infrastructure” in December 2021.

  Leading up to the operation announced Tuesday, German and U.S.
  authorities took down the “ [75]Hydra ” dark web market in April last
  year.

  ___

  Whitehurst reported from Washington.

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