An alleged fraudster dubbed The Crocodile of Wall Street over claims she laundered $4.5 billion in Bitcoin has been freed on bail  - but her husband has been ordered to stay in jail.  

Australians are officially the world's biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don't lag far behind - featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey.

Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to March 2021.

Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations.The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, Europol said today.Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and bitcoin, as well as drugs and guns. 

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

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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. 

An Australian man is accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace which has been called the biggest in the world and 'eBay for criminals'. 

LISBON, March 17 (Reuters) - The closure of nightclubs and bars during COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe is likely behind a significant drop in the use of party drug MDMA last year but consumption of other substances such as cocaine and cannabis kept rising, an EU study said on Thursday.

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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