Police arrest 150 in joint US-Europe dark web sweep

Italian police also shut down the ‘DeepSea’ and ‘Berlusconi’ marketplaces, ‘which together boasted over 100,000 announcements of illegal products’, said Europol, which coordinated the operation together with its twin judicial agency Eurojust. — Pixabay

THE HAGUE: Police in Europe and the United States announced on Oct 26 the arrest of 150 people who allegedly bought and sold significant volumes of drugs, weapons and other illegal goods on the dark web.

Europol and US authorities said they had seized tens of millions of euros in cash and virtual currencies as they rolled up an online underground trading market in the 10-month Operation Dark HunTOR.