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BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors announced Monday they have busted one of the world's biggest international alphabay darknet link platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members. Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement together with the Federal Criminal Police Office that in mid-April three German suspects, said to be the administrators of the "Boystown" platform, were arrested along with a German user.
One of the three main suspects was arrested in Paraguay.

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.

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THE HAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) - The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, partly driven by a huge increase in the production of synthetic drugs, the agency said.

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

THE HAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) - The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, partly driven by a huge increase in the production of synthetic drugs, darkmarket the agency said.

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. 

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.