They dismantle in Germany the second largest market of black cloth

The three Germans, ages 22, 29 and 31, were arrested between April 23 and 24 by agents of the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BKA, for its acronym in German). They seized more than 550,000 euros in cash and several high-end vehicles during searches of their homes.

The agents they also diverted money into Bitcoin and Monero (another cryptocurrency), servers in which the platform was housed, computers and a firearm.

Through "Wall Street Market", drugs such as cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines, confidential data, falsified documents and malicious software were exchanged. At the time of closing, the platform had more than 63,000 active sales offers, more than 1,150,000 customer accounts and more than 5,400 vendors. To pay, bitcoin and monero were used and site administrators took a commission of between 2% and 6% of the value of the product sold.

The arrests were possible thanks to an investigation in which they participated in addition to German agencies, US and Dutch police forces and the European Police Office (Europol).

The dark Web, where black online markets sell weapons, drugs, stolen personal data or child badgraphy, is a hidden part of the Internet for search engines and clbadic browsers that is part of the Deep Web ".

This segment of the Internet differs from the superficial Web, used daily and accessed through traditional search engines such as Google, Bing or Yahoo, among others.