German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk
A 22-year-old student German federal police believe to be the administrator of one of the largest German-speaking, dark-web forums has been arrested.
The man, whose identity has not been released, has been charged with operating a criminal trading platform and faces up to a decade behind bars if convicted. He was collared in late October after federal cops and officers from the Central Office for Cybercrime Bavaria searched two homes and seized computers, mobile phones, and other evidence.German law enforcement, the student, from Lower Bavaria, served as the operator of the third version of Deutschland im Deep Web since November 2018.
The first version's Tor site appeared on the criminal underground scene in 2013. Three years later, an 18-year-old bought a pistol and 300 rounds of ammunition via the illicit marketplace before killing at least nine people in aGerman police shut down Deutschland im Deep Web in 2017 following that murder spree, and also arrested the operator at the time, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018.
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