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New page wikitext, after the edit (new_wikitext) | '<br>THE HAGUE, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An online marketplace called "DarkMarket" that sold illegal drugs has been taken down in an operation led by German law enforcement agencies, European police agency Europol said on Tuesday.<br> <br>The [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] had almost 500,000 users with 2,400 sellers, Europol said in a statement.<br>Transactions conducted on it in cryptocurrency were worth more than 140 million euros ($170 million).<br> <br>"The vendors on the marketplace mainly traded all kinds of drugs and sold counterfeit money, stolen or counterfeit credit card details, anonymous SIM cards and malware," Europol said.<br> <br>Agencies from Australia, Denmark, [https://mydarkmarket.com darkmarkets] Moldova, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets Ukraine, United Kingdom and dark market 2024 the United States also took part in the operation, which Europol helped to coordinate.<br> <br>[https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets are e-commerce sites designed to lie beyond the reach of regular search engines.<br><br>They are popular with criminals, as buyers and sellers are largely untraceable. Payments on the DarkMarket were made in bitcoin and monero.<br> <br>The investigation was led by German prosecutors and an Australian citizen who is alleged to be the operator of DarkMarket was arrested near the German-Danish border last weekend, Europol said.<br>More that 20 servers were seized in Moldova and Ukraine.<br> <br>(Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg; Editing by Angus MacSwan)<br>' |