Accused operators of illicit 'darknet' market arrested in Germany, Brazil

FRANKFURT: Three German nationals accused of running one of the world's largest dark web sites for selling drugs and other contraband have been arrested and charged in two countries following a two-year investigation, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.

"While they lurk in the deepest corners of the internet, this case shows that we can hunt down these criminals wherever they hide," U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a written statement announcing the charges. The men, known to U.S., Dutch and German investigators by the monikers"coder420,""Kronos" and"TheOne," also face charges in Germany.Prosecutors in Frankfurt said that the country's federal criminal investigation office, or Bundeskriminalamt, had secured the platform's server infrastructure.

As investigators closed in last month the operators of Wall Street Market conducted an"exit scam" - making off with an estimated US$11 million in virtual currency belonging to customers, prosecutors say, before they were taken into custody in Germany.

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