The Dark Street Market of Wall Street Market was closed
In the course of an international special operation involving Europol, the Dark Street Market of Wall Street Market was closed.
In the framework of the joint operation of the Federal Criminal Police of Germany, the prosecutor's office and Europol, the Wall Street Market dark-marketplace servers were discovered and confiscated. Three arrests were also made.
_"Blow to the dark wall web marketplace of the Wall Street and Silkkitie (Valhalla) shut down after a global law enforcement operations coordinated by @bka @SuomenTulli and supported by @Europol.
- Europol (@Europol) May 3, 2019"_
According to a Europol press release, German law enforcement officers seized 550 thousand euros in cash, a six-figure amount in Bitcoin and Monero, several cars, computers, hard drives and other evidence from the alleged site operators.
Note, the Wall Street Market user base is 1.15 million people, of which 5,400 are listed as sellers of drugs, stolen data, forged documents and malicious software. 63 thousand offers were placed on the site, which made this market the second largest on the darknet, probably after the Dream Market.
At the same time, the Finnish customs officers closed the dark marketplace Silkkitie (or Valhalla), which has been active on Tor since 2013. Police also managed to withdraw a significant amount of bitcoins, according to the Helsinki Times.
The international operation was also attended by the National Police of the Netherlands, Eurojust, the FBI, the United States Internal Revenue Service, the United States Postal Service, the US Department of Justice, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DCA) and the United States Department of Homeland Security.
