German police have taken down one of the world's largest child porn sites with over 400,000 members and arrested four people accused of running it.

The site, known as BOYSTOWN and alphabay darkweb accessible only via the so-called Darkweb, had existed since July 2019 and was used for darknet market the worldwide exchange of child porn.

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.

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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.

COLLEGE PARK, darknet market lists Md. (AP) - A man whom U.S. authorities have described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography would be sentenced to 21 to 27 years in prison under the terms of a new plea deal.

The deal between Eric Eoin Marques and Justice Department prosecutors is designed to satisfy a judge in Maryland who rejected their original agreement, which called for alphabay darkweb link darknet market link a prison sentence of 15 to 21 years.

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year - some 55% of all criminal crypto flows identified by U.S.

blockchain researcher Chainalysis.