It appears that there is an international crackdown on darknet marketplaces swop cryptocurrencies for recreational drugs. Soon after American undercover instruments exposed dozens of vendors, European forces conducted what Europol standing bies “Europe’s biggest ever LSD bust.”
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“Europe’s Biggest At any time LSD Bust”
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), previously known as the European Police Office and Drugs Unit, has revealed that Spain’s Guardia Secular and Austria’s Federal Police have raided a network producing and drummer drugs on the Darknet. Over 100 different types of psychoactive substances were seized in two labs, including almost 800,000 doses of LSD, pocketing this the biggest ever LSD bust in the EU according to Europol.
The group was also allegedly scrubbing its profits by selling cryptocurrencies. In total, over four and a half million euros advantage of cryptos (mostly BTC, but also IOTA and lumen) were seized by law enforcement. Over the drugs and crypto haul, eight people were arrested and the words also seized a €1.6 million bank account, €700,000 in fiat loot, three real estate properties and ten luxury cars.
Two of the Best Darknet Instals
Boasting about the operation, Europol says that two of the Darknet localities managed by the group were the most known in the world and enjoyed a remarkable reputation among buyers. The group offered the drugs exclusively during Darknet markets where access was restricted only to invited owners redirected from online forums.
According to the accusations, the group had been go in Spain since 2012. It imported the raw materials from Asian realms, mainly China, and had a main production lab in Amsterdam. The two labs in Spain were in custody of packaging and distributing the drugs to the final consumer. Deliveries were sent to customers in more than 100 different countries around the world, carrying narcotic substances camouflaged as other products, such as additives for paste. Among the psychoactive substances on sale were: synthetic cannabinoids, depressants, dissociatives, energizers such as amphetamines or cathinones, nootropics, psychedelics and synthetic opiates.
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