Weapons and Drugs on sale, 5 individuals arrested

Italy: An active drug trafficker in dark web and real work goes by the name ‘Kriminale’ in deep web he was reported for years by the US authorities and was arrested by the Lecco police as part of a join operation about the illegal operations.

Totally 5 men were arrested – 3 Italians, one Albanian, and a South American were arrested by police for selling illegal products, narcotics, weapons, fake documents and money, tools for hacking and cloned credit cards.

The illegal operations were taking place through the deep web portal of the Italian Darknet Community or IDC.

On Friday Morning not only the arrests were made but around 50 raids were made across the country revealing numerous buyers of the illicit market. The survey exposed mostly young and minors involved.

Head of the squad of Lecco Marco Cadeddu said: “We conducted the survey of the so called darknet, supported by technical activities and use of undercover agents”.

During the survey, they were able to identify sites and forums that lie under the cover of deep web offering various kinds of drugs like cocaine, heroin, hashish, synthetic drugs, weapons, forged documents, accounts of e-commerce sites that accepts anonymous unidentifiable payments, and systems to create viruses to infect the computers and then used to blackmail the victims.

The arrested was charged with various offenses linked to International Drug Trafficking. An Italian living in Bergamo was in charge of the alleged “clandestine banker” organization, which exchanged euro to bitcoins was also charged with money laundering and unlawful practice of financial intermediation.

The head of the Mobile told,”From armchair at home, to drugs also weapons, documents or fake money can be bought in the anonymity of the deep web”. The barriers and guards are very strong.

During the course of the investigation, large quantities of drugs were seized including to the hundreds of thousands of euro as a result of unlawful activity and numerous computer equipment was acquired by authorities. The vendors and customers using the Darknet Markets (DNM) must be careful since it is safe to remain anonymous than exposing your identity and getting caught.