A dark web police sting led to 179 arrests and 500 kilograms of drugs seized
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An international police sting has led to the arrest of almost 180 dark web vendors.
Called Operation DisrupTor, the sting was led by Germany's Federal Criminal Police but also involved US law enforcement agencies including the FBI,
"Operation DisrupTor took place at a particularly critical time, as our country has seen a sharp rise in overdoses associated with potent narcotics during this pandemic," FBI director Christopher Wray said in a statement.
Wray said that in one case 11 kilograms of suspected fentanyl were seized in a small town in Ohio. "Just two milligrams of pure fentanyl is considered a lethal dose. So that means that one 11-kilogram seizure equates to about 5.5 million lethal doses of fentanyl being taken off the streets of American communities, where the impacts could have been devastating."Law enforcement is most effective when working together, and today's announcement sends a strong message to criminals selling or buying illicit goods on the dark web: the hidden internet is no longer hidden, and your anonymous activity is not anonymous," Edvardas Šileris, head of Europol's European Cybercrime Center, said in a statement.
DisrupTor was the successor to another dark web takedown last year that targeted dark web marketplace Wall Street Market.Copyright © 2021. Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved.For reprint rights. Times Syndication Service.
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