German police claim to have disrupted the country’s most popular underground market for drugs and cybercrime.
Düsseldorf police said it had been collecting evidence “for years” about Crimemarket: an online marketplace where users traded drugs, weapons and illicit services such as money laundering and cybercrime.
The police said late last week that Crimemarket had over 180,000 registered users and could be accessed via both the dark web and freely via the publicly accessible surface web (“clearnet”).
“On Thursday, February 29, 2024, a total of 102 search warrants were executed nationwide at the same time in the evening,” a police notice read.
“The local focus of the measures was primarily in North Rhine-Westphalia with 36 search objects. A total of three people were…
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