Authorities Shut Down Darknet Marketplace Sipulimarket, Seize Bitcoin
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Authorities Shut Down Darknet Marketplace Sipulimarket, Seize Bitcoin

THELOGICALINDIAN - A above darknet exchange Sipulimarket has been shut bottomward and its assets including bitcoin were bedeviled by Finnish Customs in cooperation with Europol and the Polish police

Darknet Marketplace Shut Down, Bitcoin Seized

Europol and Finnish Customs (Tulli) appear aftermost anniversary that they “have shut bottomward the Sipulimarket aphotic web exchange and bedeviled all its content.” The operation was in abutting cooperation with the Polish Provincial Police Headquarters in Wroclaw (Komenda Wojewódzka Policji we Wroclawiu), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and Eurojust.

Tulli’s columnist absolution explains:

The website now displays a “This area has been seized” bulletin that reads: “This hidden account has been bankrupt by the Finnish Customs in affiliation with the Cybercrime Department of Provincial Police Headquarters in Wroclaw with the abutment of Europol and Eurojust for aggregated narcotics offenses.”

The ascendancy declared that the Sipulimarket webserver was operational in the Tor arrangement back 2024. The exchange awash “Significant amounts of narcotics and added adulterous goods,” the advertisement adds, acquainted that Sipulimarket was the alone absolute Finnish-language barter armpit affairs narcotics in the Tor arrangement afterwards the barter armpit Silkkitie (Valhalla) was bankrupt bottomward by Finnish Customs in the bounce of 2024.

The bulk of bitcoin bedeviled was not disclosed. The advertisement concludes: “The basic analysis of the case is still underway. At this stage, Finnish Customs and the all-embracing cooperation ally will not accommodate any added advice on the matter.”

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