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During the international operation, German law enforcement officers arrested 32 people and detained 11 more, allegedly users of an illegal online platform.
More than 1.4 thousand law enforcement officers took part in the operation, writes The Local Germany. In total, the police conducted searches in 15 of the 16 federal states of Germany, as well as in neighboring Poland and Austria. During the searches, weapons, illegal substances, computers, about $ 50,000 in cash and 300 TB of data were found.
Law enforcement officials targeted users of crimenetwork.co, an underground marketplace for the sale of illegal goods and services (including illegal substances, counterfeit money and documents, bank card details, malware and hacking tools such as botnets).
The 26-year-old site administrator was arrested in May 2019 while entering Germany on a different charge. The resource itself has been disabled. Law enforcement agencies in several federal states in Germany have been investigating crimenetwork.co users since August last year.
