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LAW ENFORCEMENT

Four Men Arrested for Using Dark Web “Child Porn” Forum

Authorities in Switzerland have arrested four suspected members of the dark web child abuse forum, “Elysium.” Europol has been coordinating the investigation between German authorities and Fedpol. In 2017, the German Federal Criminal Police Office raided the home owned by the operator of Germany’s largest child pornography forum on the dark web. They arrested the forum owner and seized the encrypted computers that had been hosting the server. Since the arrest, the German Federal Criminal Police Office and other branches of law enforcement in Germany and Austria arrested members of Elysium. They used logs from the seized server and other pieces of revealing information to track down physical child abusers first. Even though the forum was for German speakers, law enforcement aro...

Three Latvian Men Arrested Over Drugs Procured on the Dark Web Using Cryptocurrencies

Customs police of the Latvia State Revenue Service (SRS) have arrested three men for procuring controlled substances on the dark web marketplaces using virtual currencies, and via postal services, Customs and Tax Police Department have reported. The three Latvia citizens, aged 30, 25 and 24, are facing several counts of charges for buying illegal drugs and psychotropic substances online from the so-called dark web, an encrypted section of the internet using cryptocurrencies that conceal the identities of buyers and their transactions avoiding law enforcement agencies from catching up on them. The investigations launched in April this year stated that the three men had been conducting the illegal business for quite a long time. According to the customs police, the drugs were p...