Juan Carlos Barrena
Correspondent in Berlin
Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 11:56 AM
The Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) has today announced the dismantling and disconnection of the largest black market known in the SO -displayed “Darknet”, the dark network of the internet in which illegal transactions with weapons or drugs are made among other things. The SO -Called “Hydra Market”, a Russian platform that worked at least since 2015, had around 17 million customers and more than 19,000 traders and sellers accounts. The BKA said that “after broad investigations” the server infrastructure was intervened and “the market is closed”.
The German agents emphasized that this market only invoiced a company volume of 1,230 million euros in 2020. Experts from the BKA and the public prosecutor of Frankfurt in charge of the case emphasized that “the illegal market is with the greatest turnover worldwide.” The researchers explained that “Hydra Market” was mainly used for drug trafficking, stolen data and false documentation, as well as criminal service companies, specific committees for certain criminals.
The BKA emphasized an important and so -man Bitcoin Bank Mixer in the market with which financial transactions were carried out by means of cryptocurrencies in a hidden way that hinders the criminal investigations of the authorities worldwide. With the intervention of their servers on Tuesday, the German agents also seized 543 bitcoins with a current value in the market of 23 million euros. On the website of the platform, the agents placed an announcement that communicates the seizure of the same.
The BKA said that the investigation of the case started in 2021 and that the central office for the fight against crime on the internet (sitting) in the bosom of the office of the attorney general and the federal office for criminal investigation, but also various American agencies. Despite the seizure of the servers and the closure of the platform, the researchers are now not aware of the identity of their managers and managers.
