Radio Free Europe 4/5/2022
The United States and Germany on April 5 took steps to cut access to an illegal dark-net market site with millions of mostly Russian-speaking customers and a cryptocurrency exchange that the United States and Germany said operate out of Russia dealing mostly in illicit drugs.
German police said they shut down servers located in Germany of the illegal dark-net marketplace known as Hydra Market and seized bitcoins worth 23 million euros ($25 million). The U.S. Treasury Department said later on April 5 that it imposed sanctions on the illegal dark-net market site, which it said had millions of customers, and a cryptocurrency exchange provided by the marketplace.
"The Hydra Market was probably the illegal marketplace with the highest turnover worldwide," with sales amounting to at least 1.23 billion euros in 2020 alone, the federal police statement said.
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