The self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and her husband have been granted bail set at $3million and $5million respectively after being arrested for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. 

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record that comes as regulators call for more powers over the fast-growing sector.

Footage has emerged of the inside of a five-storey abandoned underground NATO bunker built with 31inch thick concrete walls in Germany allegedly converted by criminal gangs into a high tech data centre to host darknet market websites. 

BERLIN (AP) - German investigators on Tuesday shut down a Russian-language darknet market marketplace that they say specialized in drug dealing, seizing bitcoin worth 23 million euros ($25.3 million).

Prosecutors in Frankfurt described the "Hydra darknet market" platform as the world's biggest illegal alphabay darknet link marketplace.

They said they seized its server infrastructure in Germany.

BERLIN, May 3 (Reuters) - German police have uncovered one of the world's largest underground websites for child pornography with more than 400,000 users and dark market link arrested four people connected to the platform, prosecutors said on Monday.

The "BOYSTOWN" platform has existed since at least June 2019 and was only accessible via the so-called darknet market, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office and the BKA Federal Police said in a statement.

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The self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and her husband have been granted bail set at $3million and $5million respectively after being arrested for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. 

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By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - An international operation targeting trafficking in opioids on a clandestine part of the internet called the darknet market has led to about 150 arrests in the United States and Europe and the seizure of drugs, cash and guns, U.S.

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