🚨 Operation #SpecTor Update 🚨
🚔 Marketplace operator arrested in Austria & extradited to the United States.
The suspect was responsible for launching & operating the darknet marketplace for the purpose of selling drugs.
More info ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/288-dark-web-vendors-arrested-in-major-marketplace-seizure #MonopolyMarket https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1653369324587843586
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Europol: 🚨 288 dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure.
Operation #SpecTor led to the seizure of:
💶 EUR 50.8 million
💊 850 kg of drugs
🔫 117 firearms
The #MonopolyMarket vendors arrested were also active on other illicit marketplaces.
More ⤵️
http://ow.ly/kLMz50O85ty https://t.co/086e1XMCUo
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1673692159415926790
This operation, codenamed SpecTor, was composed of a series of separate complementary actions in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland. Intelligence packages as basis for investigations Europol has been compiling intelligence packages based on troves of evidence provided by German authorities, who successfully seized the marketplace’s criminal infrastructure in December 2021....
Heute gab es die Operation #SpecTor. Polizeien in den USA, Europa und Südamerika nahmen 288 Leute fest, beschlagnahmten 860 kg Drogen und über 50 Mio. US-Dollar in bar oder elektronischen Währungen.
Grundlage war wohl die Übernahme des #monopolymarket
Ein paar Details gibt es auf https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/largest-international-operation-against-darknet-trafficking-fentanyl-and-opioids-results
Berichte in den Medien werden wohl in den nächsten Tagen folgen.
Today, the Department of Justice, and its Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team and international partners, announced the results of Operation SpecTor, which included 288 arrests – the most ever for any JCODE operation and nearly double that of the prior operation. Law enforcement also conducted more seizures than any prior operation, including 117 firearms, 850 kilograms of drugs that include 64 kilograms of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced narcotics, and $53.4 million in cash and virtual currencies.
International law enforcement operation SpecTor resulted in the seizure of an online marketplace and the arrest of nearly 300 people. In an international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol, codenamed ‘SpecTor’, the police seized the illegal dark web marketplace ‘Monopoly Market.’ The law enforcement agencies from nine countries (Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, […]
🚨 288 dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure.
Operation #SpecTor led to the seizure of:
💶 EUR 50.8 million
💊 850 kg of drugs
🔫 117 firearms
The #MonopolyMarket vendors arrested were also active on other illicit marketplaces.
More ⤵️
http://ow.ly/kLMz50O85ty
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1653369324587843586
This operation, codenamed SpecTor, was composed of a series of separate complementary actions in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland. Intelligence packages as basis for investigations Europol has been compiling intelligence packages based on troves of evidence provided by German authorities, who successfully seized the marketplace’s criminal infrastructure in December 2021....
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