Hansa Dark Web: In a shocking revelation from a Europol press release, he reports that the Dutch Police had secretly assumed the direction of the second largest drug-market in Dark Web for at least a month.
"Months of preparation and coordination brought today, on July 20, 2017, the closure of two of the largest criminal markets of the Dark Web, AlphaBay and Hansa", says Europol in the press release.
News with the closure of Hansa follow the unexpected disappearance of Dark Web's biggest illegal market AlphaBay, which was first announced two weeks ago.
“Two important ones businesses, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police, with the support of Europol, blocked the infrastructure of the underground criminal economy, the trading of over 350.000 illegal products, such as drugs , firearms and malware," the statement said.
"The concerted action of law enforcement authorities in Europe and the US ranks as one of the most sophisticated operations ever seen in the fight against criminal activities in Internet".
The Dutch police in the search, actively sought to capture not only sellers but also buyers. According to sources, the Police have the intention of proceeding with the capture of at least 500 buyers.
The Dutch police revealed and forwarded at least 10.000 Hansa market buyer addresses to Europol for further investigation.
He also managed to acquire more than 1.000 Bitcoin, worth over 2 million dollars. All funds have been transferred to the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Office.
In a press release, Dutch police said Hansa was initially located on servers in Lithuania. Once its operations force took control of the servers, its technology team made precise copy of the drug market and forwarded it to its local servers.
“Buyers and sellers could still have access on his site darknet, but not realizing that the police and prosecutor's office from the Netherlands had seized control of Hansa," the press release states.
In today's announcement, the researchers reported that the market recorded an average of 1.000 orders a day.
It is remarkable that after the closing of AlphaBay, the number of active daily salesmen at Hansa rose almost x8: 1.000 orders went to 8.000.
