By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, darkmarket url up 30% from 2020, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Wednesday.

Overall, cybercriminals have laundered more than $33 billion worth of crypto since 2017, alphabay darkweb url Chainalysis estimated, with most of the total over time moving to centralized exchanges.

THE HAGUE, darkmarket list Jan 12 (Reuters) - An online marketplace called "DarkMarket" that sold illegal drugs has been taken down in an operation led by German law enforcement agencies, alphabay darkweb Url European police agency Europol said on Tuesday.

The darknet market had almost 500,000 users with 2,400 sellers, Europol said in a statement.
Transactions conducted on it in cryptocurrency were worth more than 140 million euros ($170 million).

It appears the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, darkmarket url who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs under the street name Razzlekhan.

BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have filed charges against four men over their alleged involvement with a major international platform for alphabay onion child pornography that was taken down last year. Investigators say the "BoysTown" platform, dark web sites which operated on the darknet market, had more than 400,000 members.

Pedophiles used it to exchange and watch pornography of children and toddlers, most of them boys, from all over the world. It was shut down in April 2021.

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THE HAGUE, dark web sites Oct 26 (Reuters) - At least 150 people have been arrested by European and alphabay link U.S.
authorities after a joint crackdown on traders of drugs, darknet markets weapons and other illicit goods on darknet market e-commerce sites, Dutch media reported Tuesday citing police agency Europol.

By Lawrence Delevingne BOSTON, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S.
officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, darkmarket list the alleged principal operator of cryptocurrency money laundering website Bitcoin Fog, according to a federal court filing.

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By Lawrence Delevingne

BOSTON, dark web sites darknet market onion April 28 (Reuters) - U.S.
officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, darknet market lists the alleged principal operator of cryptocurrency money laundering website Bitcoin Fog, according to a federal court filing.

Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and Sweden, was detained in Los Angeles on money-laundering related charges.

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 websites.