Global Dark Web Crackdown Targeting Online Drug and Criminal Networks
- On May 22, 2025, Europol led a coordinated international law enforcement effort known as Operation RapTor, resulting in the arrest of 270 individuals involved in the buying and selling of illegal goods on the dark web in multiple countries.
- The operation followed intelligence from dismantled dark web marketplaces like Nemesis, Tor2Door, Bohemia, and Kingdom Markets, using an investigative model refined in 2023's Operation SpecTor.
- Law enforcement agencies apprehended 270 individuals primarily across the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, confiscating more than €184 million in cash and cryptocurrencies, upwards of two tonnes of various drugs, over 180 firearms, 12,500 counterfeit goods, and upwards of four tonnes of unlawful tobacco products.
- Edvardas Šileris, Head of Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, emphasized that Operation RapTor demonstrates how law enforcement can effectively operate within the dark web, underscoring the importance of international collaboration and strategic data analysis.
- This major crackdown disrupts criminal supply chains on the dark web and marks the start of follow-up investigations to identify and arrest high-value vendors across multiple countries.
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Global dark web crackdown targeting online drug and criminal networksEuropol's Operation RapTor led to 270 arrests of dark web criminals across ten countries, disrupting illegal trafficking. The post Global dark web crackdown targeting online drug and criminal networks first appeared on The Dispatch.
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