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Dark Web’s Longest-Standing Drug Market Seized in Multinational Effort
- Europol and partner agencies dismantled Archetyp Market, a dark web drug marketplace, and arrested its alleged administrator on June 16, 2025.
- The operation concluded after several years of investigation, involving coordinated police efforts in multiple European countries—including Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, and Sweden—between June 11 and 13.
- Archetyp Market operated since 2020, hosting over 600,000 users, more than 3,200 vendors, and 17,000 listings including fentanyl and other dangerous drugs, with transactions totaling around €250 million.
- Law enforcement officials dismantled the marketplace’s technical infrastructure located in the Netherlands, apprehended a German administrator aged 30 in Barcelona, Spain, and simultaneously arrested a moderator along with six leading vendors, while confiscating approximately $9 million in assets.
- Europol's deputy director Jean-Philippe Lecouffe stated the operation sends a clear message that there is no safe haven for those profiting from harm and cuts off a major supply line for dangerous substances.
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In an international operation led by Europol and Eurojust, the administrator of the archetype platform was arrested and assets worth 7.8 million euros were seized.
One of the largest online drug sales platforms was launched by police, following an international survey. The site, located on Dark Web, has over 600,000 active users and has brought to the administrator, a German citizen, profits over 30 million euros. The international expansion operation involved offices in Romania, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Portugal and the United States of America.
Dark web’s longest-standing drug market seized in multinational effort
The longest-standing dark web drug market was taken down by European authorities last week with the aid of the United States. The site, known as Archetyp Market, had a total transaction volume of at least 250 million euros, or about $289 million, according to Europol.In a press release on Monday, June 16, Europol, the police agency of the European Union, announced the market’s dismantling after a years-long investigation dubbed “Operation Deep S…
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The United States partnered with European authorities to shut down one of the world’s largest darknet drug trafficking websites, which is also one of the few online marketplaces for fentanyl.American officials partnered with Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, to shut down Archetyp Market, which authorities say had trafficked at least $290 million worth of drugs to more than 600,000 users over five years.A law enforcement coali…
German investigators have shut down one of the largest criminal trading platforms in the Darknet in an internationally coordinated action. According to the Federal Criminal Office in Wiesbaden and the Attorney General's Office Frankfurt am Main, drugs were mainly traded on the platform called Archetyp Market.
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