Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.

Launched in 2020, Archetyp was Europe's longest-serving drug market at the time of its takedown last week, and authorities today confirmed a number of key arrests.

Its alleged administrator, a 30-year-old German national who has not yet been named, was cuffed by officers at his apartment in Barcelona, and "measures were taken in Germany and Sweden against one moderator and six of the marketplace's highest vendors," officials stated.

The Register asked the authorities involved for more details on these measures, and they clarified this meant arrests only. They were not able to release personal information at this stage.

The suspected admin of the operations owns property in Hanover and Bucharest too, all of which were searched by domestic law enforcement.

Led by Germany's Federal ...