A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in Bitcoin stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever. 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A federal judge rejected a plea agreement on Wednesday that called for 15 to 21 years in prison for a man authorities described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography. Eric Eoin Marques is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea from last year if the judge departs from the sentencing range prosecutors and defense attorneys recommended. But U.S.

District Judge Theodore Chuang isn't bound by the terms of the Justice Department´s plea deal. "It's too flawed, and I also don't agree with the outcome," Chuang said.

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LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters.

BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors announced Monday they have busted one of the world's biggest international darknet market platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members.

WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) - The U.S.
Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a Russia-based darknet market dark market link site and a cryptocurrency exchange that it said operates primarily out of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

BERLIN (AP) - German investigators on Tuesday shut down a Russian-language darknet market marketplace that they say specialized in drug dealing, dark market list seizing bitcoin worth 23 million euros ($25.3 million). Prosecutors in Frankfurt described the "Hydra Market" platform as the world's biggest illegal darknet market marketplace.

They said they seized its server infrastructure in Germany.

BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year's 20th anniversary of the Sept.
11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

The German-Moroccan dual citizen, identified only as Abdurrahman C. in line with German privacy rules, was in August. An indictment filed at the Hamburg state court charges him with preparing a serious act of violence and violating weapons laws.

It wasn't immediately clear when the case might go to trial.

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

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Two of the three largest dark web markets are closed for business.

US authorities have said they were able to access the 'private key' to the hackers' bitcoin account of ransomware hackers Darkside